Cryptogenic stroke and underlying atrial fibrillation.

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Published in N Engl J Med on June 26, 2014

Authors

Tommaso Sanna1, Hans-Christoph Diener, Rod S Passman, Vincenzo Di Lazzaro, Richard A Bernstein, Carlos A Morillo, Marilyn Mollman Rymer, Vincent Thijs, Tyson Rogers, Frank Beckers, Kate Lindborg, Johannes Brachmann, CRYSTAL AF Investigators

Author Affiliations

1: From the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Institute of Cardiology (T.S.), and Institute of Neurology, Campus Bio-Medico University (V.D.L.) - both in Rome; the Department of Neurology and Stroke Center, University Hospital Essen, Essen (H.-C.D.), and Hospital Klinikum Coburg, Teaching Hospital of the University of Würzburg, Coburg (J.B.) - both in Germany; Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute (R.S.P.) and Davee Department of Neurology (R.A.B.), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago; Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (C.A.M.); University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City (M.M.R.); the KU Leuven Department of Neurosciences, the VIB-Vesalius Research Center, and the Department of Neurology, University Hospitals Leuven - all in Leuven, Belgium (V.T.); Medtronic, Mounds View, MN (T.R., K.L.); and Medtronic, Maastricht, the Netherlands (F.B.).

Associated clinical trials:

Study of Continuous Cardiac Monitoring to Assess Atrial Fibrillation After Cryptogenic Stroke (CRYSTAL-AF) | NCT00924638

Atrial Fibrillation in Cryptogenic Stroke and TIA (NOR-FIB) | NCT02937077

Clinical Data Validation of Novel Wireless Cortrium C3 Monitor for Continuous Electrocardiogram Measurements | NCT02714907

Video-based Detection of Atrial Fibrillation | NCT04267133

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