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Raul C. Rey; David A. Monteverde; Roberto E.P. Sica
Sector de Enfermedades Cerebrovasculares Division Neurologia Facultad de Medicina Universidad de Buenos Aires Hospital Ramos Mejia Urquiza 609 1221 Buenos Aires, Argentina

Arch Neurol. 1991;48(4):359-360.

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To the Editor.

—We read with interest the second report on brain embolism by the Task Force.¹ In reviewing their first article,² they estimated that the incidence of stroke due to cardiogenic embolism should be around 15%, ranging between 6% and 23%, of all ischemic strokes. When discussing heart pathologies, they established that non-valvular atrial fibrillation, ischemic heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, and prosthetic cardiac valves account for the majority of cardioembolic stroke and considered that nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathies were a less common cardiac cause of embo . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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