The Role of Echocardiography Screening at the Stroke Unit

Jorge Pagola^{1

2}, Carlos Pagola³, Jesús Juega^{1

2}, Teresa González-Alujas⁴, José Alvarez-Sabin^{1

2}, Carlos A Molina^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Stroke Unit, Neurology Department, Vall D'Hebron Hospital, Vall D'Hebron Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain.
² Departament de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
³ Cardiology Department, Ciudad de Jaén University Hospital, Jaén, Spain.
⁴ Echocardiography Lab Cardiology Department, Vall D'Hebrón Hospital, CIBER-CV, Barcelona, Spain.

Jorge Pagola et al. Front Neurol. 2020.

. 2020 Sep 11:11:1003.

doi: 10.3389/fneur.2020.01003. eCollection 2020.

Jorge Pagola^{1

2}, Carlos Pagola³, Jesús Juega^{1

2}, Teresa González-Alujas⁴, José Alvarez-Sabin^{1

2}, Carlos A Molina^{1

2}

¹ Stroke Unit, Neurology Department, Vall D'Hebron Hospital, Vall D'Hebron Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain.
² Departament de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
³ Cardiology Department, Ciudad de Jaén University Hospital, Jaén, Spain.
⁴ Echocardiography Lab Cardiology Department, Vall D'Hebrón Hospital, CIBER-CV, Barcelona, Spain.

No abstract available

Keywords: PFO; POCUS; TTE; complex aortic plaque; cryptogenic stroke; echocar diography; strain; ventricle akinesia.

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