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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:88186 |
| Date | 21 November 2023 |
| Creators | Crespo Pimentel, Bernardo, Ingwersen, Thies, Häusler, Karl Georg, Schlemm, Eckhard, Forkert, Nils D., Rajashekar, Deepthi, Mouches, Pauline, Königsberg, Alina, Kirchhof, Paulus, Kunze, Claudia, Tütüncü, Serdar, Olma, Manuel C., Krämer, Michael, Michalski, Dominik, Kraft, Andrea, Rizos, Timolaos, Helberg, Torsten, Ehrlich, Sven, Nabavi, Darius G., Röther, Joachim, Laufs, Ulrich, Veltkamp, Roland, Heuschmann, Peter U., Cheng, Bastian, Endres, Matthias, Thomalla, Götz |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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