ESUS: latest advances and research priorities

Embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS) designates patients with nonlacunar cryptogenic ischemic strokes in whom embolism is the likely stroke mechanism. This session will discuss the latest advances in ESUS and highlight the related research priorities.

Speakers:

Renate Schnabel - Professor of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, interventional cardiologist and consultant in cardiology at University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg, Germany

Hooman Kamel - Vice Chair for Research and Chief of Neurocritical Care in the Department of Neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine

George Ntaios - Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Thessaly, President Hellenic Stroke Organization

Moderator:

Diener Hans Christoph - Director of the Department of Neuroepidemiology at the Faculty of Medicine and Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Medical Faculty of the University Duisburg

Topics:

Atrial cadiopathy and ESUS (Hooman Kamel)

Supracardiac atherosclerosis and ESUS (George Ntaios)

Short runs of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke (Renate Schnabel)

Date and time:

4 PM CEST on 24th November, 2021

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