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Etiological Classification of Stroke in Patients with Chagas Disease Using TOAST, Causative Classification System TOAST, and ASCOD Phenotyping.
Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association - 1 Dec 2017
de Paiva Bezerra Rodrigo, de Miranda Alves Maramélia Araújo, Conforto Adriana Bastos, Rodrigues Daniela Laranja Gomes, Silva Gisele Sampaio
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Cardioembolism is considered a major pathophysiological mechanism in patients with ischemic stroke (IS) and Chagas disease (CD). However, a previous study reported that other stroke subtypes are present in more than 40% of CD patients according to the TOAST classification. Therefore, the aim of our study was to evaluate the etiologic classification of stroke in patients with CD using the Causative...
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