Zien Zhou, Shoujiang You, Yuki Sakamoto, Ying Xu, Song Ding, Wenyi Xu, Wenjie Li, Jie Yu, Yanan Wang, Katie Harris, Candice Delcourt, Mathew J Reeves, Richard I Lindley, Mark W Parsons, Mark Woodward, Craig Anderson, Xin Du, Jun Pu, Joanna M Wardlaw, Cheryl Carcel
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: To determine the prevalence of silent brain infarction (SBI) and cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) in adults with atrial fibrillation (AF), coronary artery disease, heart failure or cardiomyopathy, heart valve disease, and patent foramen ovale (PFO), with comparisons between those with and without recent stroke and an exploration of associations between heart disease and SBI/CSVD. METHODS: Medline, Embase, and Cochrane Library were systematically searched for hospital-based or community-based studies reporting SBI/CSVD in people with heart disease...
April 23, 2024: Neurology