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 nullPublished 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.