Amarenco Pierre, Röther Joachim, Michel Patrik, Davis Steven M, Donnan Geoffrey A
Department of Neurology and Stroke Centre, Bichat Hospital, 46 rue Henri Huchard, 75018 Paris, France.
Curr Atheroscler Rep. 2006 Jul;8(4):343-6. doi: 10.1007/s11883-006-0014-z.
Brain infarction of unknown cause, known as cryptogenic stroke, represents 30% to 40% of all ischemic strokes, or approximately 400,000 cases each year in western Europe. In this category of patients new potential causes, such as aortic arch atheroma in the elderly, have been investigated in the past two decades.
病因不明的脑梗死,即隐匿性卒中,占所有缺血性卒中的30%至40%,在西欧每年约有40万例。在这类患者中,过去二十年来一直在研究新的潜在病因,如老年人的主动脉弓动脉粥样硬化。