Calcified Cerebral Embolism: a Descriptive Study in a Large Single Center Cohort (CCE Cohorte)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

Status: Completed

Conditions: Calcified Cerebral Embolism

Treatments: Other: None, purely observational study

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06309069

IRB 24.01.01 (Other Identifier)

LOCAL/2024/TP-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Calcified cerebral embolism (CCE) is a relatively rare but underdiagnosed cause of infarction. CCE diagnosis is made by CT. Radiological characteristics of CCE have been reported in small case series. The aim of this study was to describe clinical and radiological characteristics of CCE in a large number of patients, and to compare patients with different radiological CCE characteristics.

Enrollment: 79 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with CEE treated with intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) between 2015 and 2020 managed at the CHU de Nîmes or Patients with TIA/stroke with ECC identified on CT between 12/2019 and 04/2023 managed at CHU de Nîmes

Exclusion criteria

• Patient's refusal to use his/her data

Trial design

79 participants in 1 patient group

Patients with CCE

Description:

CCE patients identified between 2015 and 2023

Treatment:

Other: None, purely observational study