Cryptogenic stroke: Much and nothing at the same time

Yelson Alejandro Picón-Jaimes¹, Ivan David Lozada-Martinez^{2

3}, Tariq Janjua⁴, Luis Rafael Moscote-Salazar^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Medical and Surgical Research Center, Valencian International University, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
² Medical and Surgical Research Center, School of Medicine, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia.
³ Colombian Clinical Research Group in Neurocritical Care, School of Medicine, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia.
⁴ Critical Care Medicine, Regions Hospital, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA.

Comment

Yelson Alejandro Picón-Jaimes et al. Eur J Neurol. 2021 Jul.

. 2021 Jul;28(7):e50-e51.

doi: 10.1111/ene.14880. Epub 2021 May 6.

Yelson Alejandro Picón-Jaimes¹, Ivan David Lozada-Martinez^{2

3}, Tariq Janjua⁴, Luis Rafael Moscote-Salazar^{2

3}

¹ Medical and Surgical Research Center, Valencian International University, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
² Medical and Surgical Research Center, School of Medicine, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia.
³ Colombian Clinical Research Group in Neurocritical Care, School of Medicine, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia.
⁴ Critical Care Medicine, Regions Hospital, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA.

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Acute ischaemic stroke in the absence of established vascular risk factors: Patient characteristics, stroke mechanism and long-term outcome.
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