Marialuisa Zedde, Ilaria Grisendi, Federica Assenza, Manuela Napoli, Claudio Moratti, Lara Bonacini, Giovanna Di Cecco, Serena D'Aniello, Claudio Pavone, Giovanni Merlino, Jukka Putaala, Franco Valzania, Rosario Pascarella
(1) Background: Non-stenotic complicated plaques are a neglected cause of stroke, in particular in young patients. Atherosclerosis has some preferential sites in extracranial arteries and the prepetrous segment of the internal carotid artery has been rarely described as site of atheroma in general and of complicated atheroma in stroke patients. The aim of this study is to describe the rate of the prepetrous internal carotid artery's (ICA) involvement in a single-center case series of young stroke patients. (2) Methods: All patients < 50 years old with acute ischemic stroke admitted to a single-center Stroke Unit during two time periods (the first one from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2019, and the second one from 1 January 2021 to 30 June 2022), were prospectively investigated as part of a screening protocol of the Searching for Explanations for Cryptogenic Stroke in the Young: Revealing the Etiology, Triggers, and Outcome (SECRETO) study [ClinicalTrials...
March 15, 2024: Journal of Clinical Medicine