Atrial fibrillation detected after acute ischemic stroke: Evidence supporting the neurogenic hypothesis

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  González Toledo, María E ^a   Klein, Francisco R ^a   Riccio, Patricia M ^a   Cassará, Fátima Pagani ^a   Muñoz Giacomelli, Francisco ^a   Racosta, Juan M ^a   Roberts, Eleanor S ^a   Sposato, Luciano A ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN FAVALORO   (Argentina)

^b Vascular Research Institute at INECO Foundation   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; autonomous nervous system; cerebral embolism; ischemic stroke electrocardiography; neurogenic; pathogenesis

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CARDIOVERSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INSULA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINUS RHYTHM; STROKE PATIENT; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84889032411     PISSN: 10523057     EISSN: 15328511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2013.05.015     Document Type: Article

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