Stroke as a complication of cardiac catheterization: risk factors and clinical features. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The authors aimed to delineate the risk factors and radiologic pattern of stroke complicating cardiac catheterization. Twenty-two cases were matched with three control subjects. Stroke was significantly associated with severity of coronary artery disease and length of fluoroscopy time (OR 1.96 and 1.65). The use of MRI with diffusion weighting allowed the identification of multiple asymptomatic lesions and a subset of lacunar-type infarcts (23%), which most likely occurred on an atheroembolic basis.

publication date

  • April 10, 2001

Research

keywords

  • Cardiac Catheterization
  • Stroke

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0035836623

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1212/wnl.56.7.975

PubMed ID

  • 11294941

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 56

issue

  • 7