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Comment
. 2014 Sep;11(9):504-5.
doi: 10.1038/nrcardio.2014.111. Epub 2014 Jul 29.

Atrial fibrillation. Cryptogenic stroke--can we abandon this apologetic diagnosis?

A John Camm  1
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Atrial fibrillation. Cryptogenic stroke--can we abandon this apologetic diagnosis?

A John Camm. Nat Rev Cardiol. 2014 Sep.

Abstract

Cryptogenic stroke is an apology for ignorance about the cause of ischaemic stroke. Now, in two new studies involving long-term electrocardiogram monitoring, investigators from the EMBRACE and CRYSTAL-AF trials suggest that many instances of cryptogenic stroke might be caused by undetected atrial fibrillation.

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