Orientador: Silméia Garcia Zanati Bazan / Resumo: Introdução: O acidente vascular cerebral (AVC) isquêmico pode ser dividido etiologicamente em cinco tipos de acordo com a classificação TOAST e sua adequada investigação e caracterização pode auxiliar no manejo clínico e prevenção de novos eventos. O ecocardiograma transtorácico (ETT) é peça fundamental na investigação etiológica e cerca de um terço dos pacientes permanece sem definição adequada da etiologia ou são classificados como TOAST indeterminado. Objetivos: Avaliar se o percentual de indeterminação do TOAST diminui em função da realização do ecocardiograma transtorácico; avaliar se o prognóstico após o AVC isquêmico é pior entre pacientes que apresentam TOAST indeterminado e verificar a capacidade preditiva das variáveis ecocardiográficas sobre o prognóstico após AVC isquêmico. Metodologia: Coorte retrospectiva, na qual foram realizadas avaliações clínica, neurológica e ecocardiográfica durante internação por AVC e avaliação da mortalidade intra-hospitalar e da capacidade funcional no momento da alta hospitalar e após 90 dias. Foram realizados modelos de regressão linear múltipla e regressão logística múltipla ajustados pelos fatores confundidores. O nível de significância foi de 5%. Resultados: Foram incluídos 1100 pacientes, maioria do sexo masculino, 606 (55,09%), média de 68,1±13,3 anos de idade, em 977 (88,82%) pacientes foi realizado ETT e 448 (40,7%) tiveram classificação de TOAST indeterminado. Pacientes submetidos ao ecocardiograma transtorácico tiveram 3,1 v... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Background: Ischemic stroke can be divided etiologically into five types according to the TOAST classification, and its adequate investigation and characterization can aid in the clinical management and prevention of new events. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) plays a key role in etiological investigation, and about onethird of patients remain without adequate definition of the etiology or are classified as undetermined TOAST. Objectives: To evaluate if the percentage of indetermination of TOAST decreases according to the performance of the transthoracic echocardiography; to evaluate whether the prognosis after ischemic stroke is worse among patients with undetermined TOAST and to verify the predictive capacity of the echocardiographic variables on the prognosis after ischemic stroke. Methods: Retrospective cohort, in which clinical, neurological and echocardiographic evaluations were performed during stroke hospitalization and evaluation of in-hospital mortality and functional capacity at hospital discharge and after 90 days. Multiple linear regression and multiple logistic regression models were adjusted for confounding factors. The level of significance was 5%. Results: A total of 1100 patients were included, mostly male, 606 (55.09%), mean of 68.1 ± 13.3 years of age, and 977 (88.82%) patients were submitted to TTE and 448 (40.7%) had undetermined TOAST classification. Patients submitted to transthoracic echocardiography were 3.1 times less likely to have TOAST class... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Paroxysmal Atrial fibrillation (AF) is often clinically silent and may be missed by the usual diagnostic workup after ischemic stroke. We aimed to determine whether shape characteristics of ischemic stroke lesions can be used to predict AF in stroke patients without known AF at baseline. Lesion shape quantification on brain MRI was performed in selected patients from the intervention arm of the Impact of standardized MONitoring for Detection of Atrial Fibrillation in Ischemic Stroke (MonDAFIS) study, which included patients with ischemic stroke or TIA without prior AF. Multiple morphologic parameters were calculated based on lesion segmentation in acute brain MRI data. Multivariate logistic models were used to test the association of lesion morphology, clinical parameters, and AF. A stepwise elimination regression was conducted to identify the most important variables. A total of 755 patients were included. Patients with AF detected within 2 years after stroke (n=86) had a larger overall oriented bounding box (OBB) volume (p=0.003) and a higher number of brain lesion components (p=0.008) than patients without AF. In the multivariate model, OBB volume (OR 1.72, 95%CI 1.29–2.35, p<0.001), age (OR 2.13, 95%CI 1.52–3.06, p<0.001), and female sex (OR 2.45, 95%CI 1.41–4.31, p=0.002) were independently associated with detected AF. Ischemic lesions in patients with detected AF after stroke presented with a more dispersed infarct pattern and a higher number of lesion components. Together with clinical characteristics, these lesion shape characteristics may help in guiding prolonged cardiac monitoring after stroke.