Demographics, Risk Factors, and Etiology of Posterior Cerebral Artery Stroke Causing Homonymous Hemianopia

CONCLUSIONS: Most patients in our PCA cohort had multiple conventional stroke risk factors, a finding not previously documented. Mean age at stroke onset and AF frequency were lower than in our ICA/MCA cohort, in agreement with previous studies. As some other studies have found, nearly 1/3 of strokes were attributed to cardioaortic embolism. Within that group, AF was often a poststroke diagnosis, a finding not previously highlighted. Compared with earlier studies, a relatively high portion of strokes were of undetermined etiology and of other determined etiologies, including stroke after endovascular or surgical interventions. Supra-aortic large artery atherosclerosis was a relatively uncommon explanation for stroke.PMID:37436886 | DOI:10.1097/WNO.0000000000001948

Source: Atherosclerosis - July 12, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Elaine A Liu Sadhana Murali Roberto Rivera-de Choudens Jonathan D Trobe Source Type: research