Long-term mortality in patients with coexisting potential causes of ischemic stroke

Multiple potential causes of stroke may coexist in ischemic stroke patients, which may affect long-term outcome.

We investigated whether there are differences in long-term mortality among stroke patients with coexisting potential causes.

We evaluated the long-term all-cause mortality and stroke or cardiovascular mortality of ischemic stroke patients with multiple potential stroke mechanisms, large artery atherosclerosis, cardioembolism, small vessel occlusion, and negative evaluation admitted to a single center between January 1996 and December 2008. Mortality data were obtained from a National Death Certificate system. Read more