Age- and sex-specific analysis of patients with embolic stroke of undetermined source

George Ntaios¹, Gregory Y H Lip², Konstantinos Vemmos²+29

• ¹From the Department of Medicine (G.N., G.A., K.M., V.P.), Larissa University Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece; University of Birmingham Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences (G.Y.H.L.), City Hospital, UK; Department of Clinical Therapeutics (K.V., E.K., E.M., A.V.), Medical School of Athens, Alexandra Hospital, Greece; Stroke Unit (A.R.-C., E.C.-G., J.R.), Department of Neurology, Hospital del Mar, Neurovascular Research Group, IMIM-Hospital del Mar (Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain; Stroke Unit (V.A., V.C., M.P.), University of Perugia, Italy; Department of Neurology and Stroke Center (E.D.-T., B.F., J.P.L.), La Paz University Hospital-Autónoma University of Madrid, IdiPAZ Health Research Institute, Spain; Stroke Clinic (A.A.), Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía Manuel Velasco Suárez, Mexico City, Mexico; Department of Neurology (S.F.A., L.P., M.G.-S.), Institute for Neurological Research, FLENI, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Department of Neurology (M.A.H.), Division of Critical Care Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Neurology (F.B.), S. Paolo Hospital, Savona, Italy; Vascular Neurology Section (B.C.C., A.M.I.M., A.G.P., A.G.-N.), Stroke Center, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, IiSGM Health Research Institute, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain; Department of Neurology (J.P., T.T.), Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki, Finland; Department of Clinical Neurosciences (T.T.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg; Department of Neurology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden; Neurosciences Department (M.A.B.), Hospital Dr. Rafael A. Calderón Guardia, CCSS, University of Costa Rica; Subdirectorate of Informatics (F.G.), Larissa General University Hospital, Greece; and Stroke Service (V.P.), Department of Neurosciences, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Medical School, University of Leeds, UK. gntaios@med.uth.gr.+1