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The incidence of cardiac embolic events in stroke patients has often been underestimated. Recent research has shown that it ranges from 15% to 35% (1, 11, 14, 17). In most cases, the diagnosis of cardiac embolism can be established by using clinical criteria along — for example, the presence of atrial fibrillation, valvular disease, cardiomyopathy or rheumatic heart disease (3, 6, 8). A direct positive detection of intracardiac thrombi is, however, not to be expected often, even when using two-dimensional echocardiography (2, 7, 10, 13). The diagnostic techniques mentioned above including chest-ray, ECG and echocardiography provide the means of splitting the patient population into groups with a high risk of cardiac embolism, with a low risk of cardiac embolism and with heart diseases without an enhanced risk or cardiac embolism.
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Rosch, M., Bihl, H., Reuther, R., Henningsen, H., Kessler, C. (1990). Cardiac Indium-III Platelet Scintigraphy in Stroke Patients. In: Kessler, C., Hardeman, M.R., Henningsen, H., Petrovici, JN. (eds) Clinical Application of Radiolabelled Platelets. Developments in Nuclear Medicine, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0581-8_10
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