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Atherosclerotic Disease of the Aortic Arch as a Risk Factor for Recurrent Ischemic Stroke

The French Study of Aortic Plaques in Stroke Group

Massachusetts Medical Society (1996) • Volume 334, Issue 19, Pages 1216-1221

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Abstract

Atherosclerotic plaques > or = 4 mm thick in the aortic arch are significant predictors of recurrent brain infarction and other vascular events.

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DOI

10.1056/nejm199605093341902

Language

English

Topic

Aortic Thrombus and Embolism

Keywords

Medicine, Aortic arch, Cardiology, Myocardial infarction, Stroke (engine), Internal medicine, Risk factor, Embolism, Vascular disease, Infarction, Disease, Cerebral infarction, Aorta, Ischemia

Published

May 9, 1996

Citations

567 citations

FWCI

24.03

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