Detection of occult atrial fibrillation in patients with embolic stroke of uncertain source: a work in progress
Atrial fibrillation accounts for a substantial proportion of ischemic strokes of known etiology and may be responsible for an additional subset of the 25-40% of strokes of unknown cause (so-called cryptogenic). Oral anticoagulation is significantly more effective than antiplatelet therapy in the se...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-04-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Physiology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2015.00100/full |