Current Situation of Natural History, Diagnosis and Treatment in Inpatients With Embolism Stroke of Unknown Cause (ESUS)

Peking University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source

Treatments: Other: ESUS

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04455529

PUTH2016144

Details and patient eligibility

About

Evaluate the epidemiological characteristics, risk factors, clinical characteristics in patients with ESUS and their medication compliance and relapse within 1 year.

Full description

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the epidemiological characteristics, risk factors (such as hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, history of previous stroke, smoking, and alcohol consumption), clinical characteristics in patients with ESUS and their medication compliance and relapse within 1 year.

Enrollment: 300 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients diagnosed with acute cerebral infarction and treated in Peking University Third Hospital Neurology Department from January 2010 to June 2016.

Exclusion criteria

• Lacunar infarction
• Aortic atherosclerotic cerebral infarction
• Clear cardiogenic cerebral infarction
• Other related system diseases (arteritis, vascular dissection, migraine and vasospasm, etc.)

Trial design

300 participants in 1 patient group

ESUS

Description:

Embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS) designates patients with nonlacunar cryptogenic ischemic strokes in whom embolism is the likely stroke mechanism.

Treatment:

Other: ESUS