Cervicocerebral Atherosclerosis Burden Increases Long-Term Mortality in Patients With Ischemic Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack.

The main findings of our study were the increasing mortality with the total burden of computed tomography angiography-defined atherosclerosis in the brain supplying arteries after ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack and that the CAB score-integrating this pathology-independently increased all-cause mortality.