CTA to detect cardiac sources of embolism
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CTA to detect cardiac sources of embolism
CTA yields similar diagnostic accuracy to TEE for identifying high-risk cardiac sources of embolism in stroke victims—such as thrombus and aortic atheroma—but had a lower sensitivity and negative predictive value in medium-risk sources.
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