Coronary Artery Disease in Patients with Ischemic Stroke and TIA

Ischemic stroke (IS) and coronary artery disease (CAD) share common risk factors and one may be the harbinger of the other. We aimed to study prevalence of symptomatic and asymptomatic CAD in a cohort of consecutive patients with IS and assess its relationship with intracranial and extracranial large artery cerebrovascular disease (LAD).

Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - October 8, 2019 Category: Neurology Authors: Rohit Bhatia, Gautam Sharma, Chetan Patel, Ajay Garg, Ambuj Roy, Prerna Bali, Nishita Singh, Pranjal Sisodia, Vishnubhatla Sreenivas, M.V. Padma Srivastava, Kameshwar Prasad Source Type: research