Embolia cerebral de origen cardíaco. / [Cerebral embolism of cardiac origin]

ABSTRACT

We reviewed 538 charts of patients hospitalized with acute ischemic strokes between 1983 and 1991. The inclusion criteria for cardioembolism were 1) sudden onset and maximal neurological focal deficit from the beginning, 2) brain CT showing an ischemic infarct, hemorrhagic infarct, or multiple infarcts, 3) cardioembolic sources demonstrated by echocardiography or heart catheterization, and 4) absence of stenotic-occlusive cerebrovascular disease. Sixty-nine patients (12.8