Cardiac stasis imaging, stroke, and silent brain infarcts in patients with nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy
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Patients with nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy (NIDCM) are at higher risk of stroke than their age-matched population. However, the risk of bleeding neutralizes the benefit of preventive oral anticoagulation. In this work, we show that in patients in sinus rhythm, the burden of stroke is related to intraventricular stasis metrics derived from echocardiography. Therefore, stasis metrics may be useful to personalize primary prevention anticoagulation in these patients.
