A large study of patients with acute stroke suggests that the substantial proportion who have acute lacunar stroke could have an underlying non-atherothrombic, occlusive, small-vessel disease ...

Long-term dual antiplatelet therapy has not been rigorously assessed in patients with specific ischemic stroke subtypes other than that associated with atrial fibrillation (JW Neurol Aug 11 2009).

Among participants with retinopathy at baseline, the incidences of cerebral and lacunar infarct at follow-up were 37.7% and 35.8%, respectively. By contrast, these incidences in participants ...