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Abstract
An ischemic stroke due to a blood clot, emboli or other types of blockage which forms somewhere other than the brain and subsequently travels near and restricts blood flow to the brain. Most often the origin of the clot is from the heart and is referred to as cardioembolic stroke.
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- Embolic Strokes
- Stroke, Embolic
- Strokes, Embolic
- Cardio-embolic Stroke
- Cardioembolic Stroke
- Cardio embolic Stroke
- Cardio-embolic Strokes
- Cardioembolic Strokes
- Stroke, Cardio-embolic
- Stroke, Cardioembolic
- Strokes, Cardio-embolic
- Strokes, Cardioembolic
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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2021
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- Embolism (1985-2020)
- Stroke (1980-2020)
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- National Library of Medicine. Embolic Stroke. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000083262. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000083262
- Embolic Stroke. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107538662