Embolic Strokes of Unknown Source and Cryptogenic Stroke: Implications in Clinical Practice

摘要: Up to a third of strokes are rendered cryptogenic or undetermined etiology. This number is specifically higher in younger patients. At times, inadequate diagnostic workups, multiple causes, an under-recognized etiology contributes this statistic. Embolic stroke source, new clinical entity particularly refers patients with embolic for whom the embolism remains unidentified despite through investigations ruling out established cardiac and vascular sources. In article, we review current classification discuss important considerations these patients; highlighting arrhythmias structural abnormalities, patent foramen ovale, paradoxical sources, potentially under-recognized, vascular, inflammatory, autoimmune, hematologic sources relation practice.