Symptomatic Non-stenotic Carotid Disease in Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source : Analysis of the ESCAPE-NA1 Trial.

Martha MarkoNishita SinghJohanna M OspelKazutaka UchidaMohammed A AlmekhlafiAndrew M DemchukRaul G NogueiraRyan A McTaggartAlexandre Y PoppeJeremy L RempelMichael TymianskiMichael D HillMayank GoyalBijoy K Menonnull null

Published in: Clinical neuroradiology (2023)

Non-stenotic carotid disease frequently occurs in patients classified as ESUS and is associated with ipsilateral ischemic stroke. Our findings support the role of non-stenotic carotid disease as stroke etiology in ESUS, but further prospective research is needed to prove a causal relationship.

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