Validation of the AF-ESUS score to identify patients with embolic stroke of undetermined source and low risk of device-detected atrial fibrillation

Eur J Intern Med. 2021 Jul:89:135-136. doi: 10.1016/j.ejim.2021.04.003. Epub 2021 May 2.

Authors

Alkisti Kitsiou¹, Dimitrios Sagris², Wolf-Rüdiger Schäbitz¹, George Ntaios³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, Evangelisches Klinikum Bethel, EvKB, Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 33952425
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2021.04.003

No abstract available

Keywords: Atrial fibrillation; ESUS; Implantable loop recorder; Score.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Atrial Fibrillation* / complications
Atrial Fibrillation* / diagnosis
Atrial Fibrillation* / epidemiology
Electrocardiography
Embolic Stroke*
Humans
Risk Factors
Stroke* / epidemiology
Stroke* / etiology

Associated data

ClinicalTrials.gov/NCT02766205