Patient with ischemic cerebral stroke

Abstract

Cardioaortic embolic strokes present 15-30% of all cerebral strokes. The role of transesophageal echocardiography in ischemic cerebral stroke and searching for possible source of cardioembolisation is described in a typical patient case.

Keywords

• Ischemic cerebral stroke
• cardioembolisation
• transesophageal echocardiography