Cardiogenic brain embolism
General information
About one stroke in six is cardioembolic. Emboli may be composed of fibrin-rich thrombi (e.g. mural thrombi due to segmental myocardial hypokinesis following MI or ventricular aneurysm), platelets (e.g. nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis), calcified material (e.g. in aortic stenosis), or tumor particles (e.g. atrial myxoma).