Acute ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack and the need for inpatient echocardiography

Conclusions
Echocardiography detected potential clinically relevant findings in a minority of patients (7.6%), but these findings changed medical management 90.5% of the time. A risk score using sex, ECG abnormality, and embolic pattern imaging at baseline could help predict which patients are more likely to have these echo findings.

Source: Postgraduate Medical Journal - July 17, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Menon, B. K., Coulter, J. I., Bal, S., Godzwon, C., Weeks, S., Hutchison, S., Hill, M. D., Coutts, S. B. Tags: Echocardiography, Stroke, Radiology, Clinical diagnostic tests, Radiology (diagnostics) Original article Source Type: research