Recently, embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS), and complementary tests needed for its diagnosis, has been described as a new clinical entity [12]. The clinical construct ESUS was introduced to identify patients with non lacunar cryptogenic ischemic strokes in whom embolism was the likely stroke mechanism.
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