A tool to identify patients with embolic stroke of undetermined source at high recurrence risk

George Ntaios¹, Georgios Georgiopoulos², Kalliopi Perlepe²+35

• ¹From the Department of Internal Medicine (G.N., K.P., E. Karagkiozi, V.P., K.M.), Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece; Department of Clinical Therapeutics (G.G., A.V., E. Koroboki, E.M., K.V.), Medical School of Athens, Alexandra Hospital, Greece; Stroke Center and Neurology Service (G.S., D.S., A.E., S.N., P.M.), Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Neurology (E.K.), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; Division of Brain Sciences (E.K.), Department of Stroke Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK; 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.R.P., S.S.-V.), 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., M.A.H.), Institute for Neurological Research, FLENI, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Neurosciences Department (M.A.B.), Hospital Dr. Rafael A. Calderón Guardia, CCSS, University of Costa Rica; 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 (T.T.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden; Stroke Service (V.P.), Department of Neurosciences, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Medical School, University of Leeds, UK; and Department of Neurology (F.B.), S. Paolo Hospital, Savona, Italy. gntaios@med.uth.gr.+1