Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A high rate of clinically silent cerebral embolization exists after transcatheter aortic valve replacement, with ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

Based on a new study, researchers urge more comprehensive imaging for patients presenting to hospitals with stroke symptoms. Using both MRI and echocardiography to image the heart greatly enhances the ...

Photo Credit: J Am Coll Cardiol. Central Illustration (adapted). High-risk, nonstenotic intracranial plaque appears to be a more important cause of embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS) than ...

A recent review identifies Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source (ESUS) as accounting for one out of every six ischemic ...

Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is used to detect high-risk cardiac sources of cerebral embolism that could cause stroke, but it has limited diagnostic accuracy. Harloff et al. proposed and ...

WASHINGTON, DC—Cerebral embolic protection (CEP) with the Sentinel device (Boston Scientific) reduces the number and volume of new lesions identified by brain MRI immediately following TAVI, but this ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adults who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement with a cerebral protection system experienced fewer ...

We conducted an international, open-label, randomized, blinded-outcome-assessment trial involving 1284 patients who had undergone successful catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation at least 1 year ...

Including cardiac CT in the initial hyperacute stroke imaging protocol gives a higher yield for detecting high-risk cardioaortic sources of embolism than the current practice of performing later ...