Cardioembolic Stroke Diagnosis Using Blood Biomarkers

Stroke is one of the main causes of death and disability in the world. Cardioembolic etiology accounts for approximately one fifth of all ischemic strokes whereas 25-30% remains undetermined even after an advanced diagnostic workup. Despite there is not any biomarker currently approved to distinguis...

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Autores: Llombart, VÍctor, García-Berrocoso, Teresa|||0000-0001-7387-7389, Bustamante, Alejandro|||0000-0003-4390-8900, Fernández Cadenas, Israel|||0000-0003-4821-2363, Montaner, Joan|||0000-0003-4845-2279
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:185000
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/185000
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.2174/1573403X10666140214122633
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Atrial
Biomarker
Cardioembolic
Classification
Etiology
Fibrillation
Stroke
MiRNA
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Sumario:Stroke is one of the main causes of death and disability in the world. Cardioembolic etiology accounts for approximately one fifth of all ischemic strokes whereas 25-30% remains undetermined even after an advanced diagnostic workup. Despite there is not any biomarker currently approved to distinguish cardioembolic stroke among other etiologies in clinical practice the use of biomarkers represents a promising valuable complement to determine stroke etiology reducing the number of cryptogenic strokes and aiding in the prescription of the most appropriated primary and secondary treatments in order to minimize therapeutic risks and to avoid recurrences. In this review we present an update about specific cardioembolic stroke-related biomarkers at a protein, transcriptomic and genetic level. Finally, we also focused on reported biomarkers associated with atrial fibrillation (a cardiac illness strongly related with cardioembolic stroke subtype) thus with a potential to become biomarkers to detect cardioembolic stroke in the future.