Recurrent cerebral embolism in cardiac amyloidosis
- 1 July 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 31 (7) , 904
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.31.7.904
Abstract
A 34 yr old man sustained 2 middle cerebral artery strokes, 1 episode of amaurosis fugax and several vertebrobasilar transient ischemic attacks over a decade. No other cause for this stroke syndrome was found except for cardiomyopathy probably caused by amyloidosis.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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