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Acute Cardiac CT Added to Stroke Imaging Detects Cardiac Thrombi in About 1 in 16 Patients and Outperforms Transthoracic Echocardiography

By MedXY 06/10/2026

In a 3919-patient individual-level meta-analysis, acute cardiac CT detected cardiac thrombi in 6.2% of ischemic stroke cases, exceeded transthoracic echocardiography yield, added modest imaging burden, and identified patients with worse 90-day outcomes.