Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2022 Jan;24(1):156-159.
doi: 10.5853/jos.2021.03531. Epub 2022 Jan 31.

Right Hemispheric Predominance of Brain Infarcts in Atrial Fibrillation: A Lesion Mapping Analysis

Affiliations

Right Hemispheric Predominance of Brain Infarcts in Atrial Fibrillation: A Lesion Mapping Analysis

Anna Altermatt et al. J Stroke. 2022 Jan.
No abstract available

PubMed Disclaimer

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
The distribution of infarcts. Figure depicting the voxel-based sum of all large cortical and non-cortical infarcts and small non-cortical infarcts overlaid on an age-specific standard brain template. The color scale indicates the number of patients with an infarct in a given voxel.

References

    1. Wolf PA, Abbott RD, Kannel WB. Atrial fibrillation as an independent risk factor for stroke: the Framingham Study. Stroke. 1991;22:983–988. - PubMed
    1. Kamel H, Healey JS. Cardioembolic stroke. Circ Res. 2017;120:514–526. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Conen D, Rodondi N, Müller A, Beer JH, Ammann P, Moschovitis G, et al. Relationships of overt and silent brain lesions with cognitive function in patients with atrial fibrillation. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2019;73:989–999. - PubMed
    1. Kim HJ, Song JM, Kwon SU, Kim BJ, Kang DH, Song JK, et al. Right-left propensity and lesion patterns between cardiogenic and aortogenic cerebral embolisms. Stroke. 2011;42:2323–2325. - PubMed
    1. Conen D, Rodondi N, Mueller A, Beer J, Auricchio A, Ammann P, et al. Design of the Swiss Atrial Fibrillation Cohort Study (Swiss-AF): structural brain damage and cognitive decline among patients with atrial fibrillation. Swiss Med Wkly. 2017;147:w14467. - PubMed

LinkOut - more resources