Embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS) designates patients with nonlacunar cryptogenic ischemic strokes in whom embolism is the likely stroke mechanism. This session will discuss the latest advances in ESUS and highlight the related research priorities.
Topics:
- Atrial cadiopathy and ESUS (Hooman Kamel)
- Supracardiac atherosclerosis and ESUS (George Ntaios)
- Short runs of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke (Renate Schnabel)
Date and time:
4 PM CEST on 24th November, 2021
Webinar Details
Speakers:
- Renate Schnabel (Professor of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, interventional cardiologist and consultant in cardiology at University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg, Germany)
- Hooman Kamel (Vice Chair for Research and Chief of Neurocritical Care in the Department of Neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine)
- George Ntaios (Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Thessaly, President Hellenic Stroke Organization)
Moderator:
- Diener Hans Christoph (Director of the Department of Neuroepidemiology at the Faculty of Medicine and Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Medical Faculty of the University Duisburg)
- Simona Sacco (Professor of Neurology, University of L'aquila, Italy and Director of the local clinical Neurology and Stroke Unit Department)