Abstract:A 65–year–old man came to our hospital for a subacute stroke of the left parietotemporal area. An aorto–coronary bypass for stable coronary artery disease and aortobisiliac bypass for infrarenal aortic aneurysm (with post–operative courses complicated by multiple atrial fibrillation paroxisms which were pharmacologically cardioverted) was reported. No undergoing anticoagulant therapy for CHADSVASc=1 was reported. Hypothesizing a cardioembolic origin of the stroke, echocardiographic analysis was performed which… Show more
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