Tan Xia, Bai Harrison Xiao, Wang Zhili, Yang Li
Department of Neurology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, China.
Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States.
J Clin Neurosci. 2017 Jul;41:168-169. doi: 10.1016/j.jocn.2017.03.013. Epub 2017 Mar 31.
To determine the risk of stroke in patients with subclavian steal syndrome (SSS). We identified 165 patients with imaging-provenSSS from two hospitals. Demographic, clinical and imaging data were retrospectively collected. Patients were followed up for stroke events. Stroke occurred in 43 patients with a median follow-up of 28months. Seven of these cases were identified prospectively and 36 cases retrospectively. On multivariate analysis, presence of symptoms at presentation (p=0.029) was a significant predictor of stroke. Presence of symptoms at presentation predicted stroke in imaging-proven SSS.