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Factors associated with migraine aura-like symptoms in acute ischemic stroke

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Data used for this study will be made available upon reasonable request to the corresponding author.

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Abbreviations

IS:

Ischemic stroke

MA:

Migraine aura

AHA/ASA:

American Heart Association/American Stroke Association

ICHD:

International Classification of Headache Disorders

PFO:

Patent foramen ovale

PCA:

Posterior cerebral artery

MCA:

Middle cerebral artery

CSD:

Cortical spreading depolarization

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Funding

This study received research support from the Swiss Heart Foundation (FF21070).

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  1. Department of Neurology, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Freiburgstrasse, 3010, Bern, Switzerland

    Adrian Scutelnic, Lucie Justus, Thomas R. Meinel, Morin Beyeler, Norbert Silimon, Boudewijn R.H. Drop, David J. Seiffge, Urs Fischer, Marcel Arnold, Heinrich P. Mattle, Christoph J. Schankin & Simon Jung

  2. Clinical Trials Unit Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

    Mattia Branca

  3. Department of Neurology and Stroke Centre, University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    Urs Fischer

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Study concept: LJ, AS, CJS, SJ; data acquisition: LJ, AS, MB; data analysis: LJ, AS, MB; drafting of the manuscript: LJ, AS, CJS, SJ; writing the subsequent drafts: all authors; critical revision of the article for intellectual content: all authors.

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LJ, MB, MBr, MBe, TRM, SN, DB: none. AS and SJ report research support from the Swiss Heart Foundation. DS reports grants from Bangerter Rhyner Foundation during the conduct of the study; personal fees from Bayer, Alexion, and VarmX outside the submitted work. UF: consulting for Medtronic, Stryker, CSL Behring. Advisory boards for Portola/Alexion (money paid to institution). MA reports personal fees from AstraZeneca, Bayer, Bristol Myers Squibb, Covidien, Daiichy Sankyo, Medtronic, Novartis, Pfizer, and Amgen. HPM: Grants from Abbott for the PC and PRIMA trials and from Cerenovus for the ARISE studies. Personal and speaker fees from Cerenovus, Bayer, Servier, Medtronic and Stryker. CJS: consulting, advisory boards, speaker, travel support for/from Novartis, Eli Lilly, TEVA Pharmaceuticals, Allergan, Almirall, Amgen, Lundbeck, MindMed, Grünenthal. Part-time-employee at Zynnon.

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Scutelnic, A., Justus, L., Branca, M. et al. Factors associated with migraine aura-like symptoms in acute ischemic stroke. J Neurol 270, 3637–3641 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-023-11694-2

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