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Table 1 General characteristics, diagnostic work-up, lesion location and TOAST classification of acute symptomatic infarction (n = 452)

From: Small obliquely oriented cortical cerebellar infarctions are associated with cardioembolic stroke

General characteristics

 Median age

72 (IQR 61–81)

 Sex

61% men (n = 276)

 Arterial hypertension

55% (n = 249)

 Smoking

36% (n = 163)

 Diabetes

23% (n = 104)

 Hypercholesterolemia

38% (n = 172)

 Brain infarction history

18% (n = 81)

 AF history

12% (n = 54)

Diagnostic work-up

Cardiac

Standard ECG

100% (n = 452)

Prolonged (≥24 h) ECG

91% (n = 411)

 -In hospital monitoring only

20% (n = 90)

 -Holter monitoring only

16% (n = 72)

 -Both in-hospital and Holter monitoring

55% (n = 249)

Echocardiography

71% (n = 321)

Vessel imaging

 -Duplex or CTA or gadolinium-enhanced MRA

100% (n = 452)

 -Duplex only

8% (n = 36)

 -CTA only

10% (n = 45)

 -Gadolinium-enhanced MRA only

26% (n = 118)

Two vessel imaging modalities

42% (n = 190)

Three vessel imaging modalities

14% (n = 63)

Location acute symptomatic infarction

 -anterior circulation

66% (n = 298)

 -posterior circulation

22% (n = 99)

 -mixed anterior-posterior circulation

12% (n = 54)

 -multiterritorial

15% (n = 68)

TOAST classification

Cardioembolism

26% (n = 119)

 -AF

83% (n = 98)

  -known AF

45% (n = 53)

  -newly discovered

38% (n = 45)

 -other than AF cardioembolic cause

17% (n = 20)

Large-artery atherosclerosis

17% (n = 76)

Small vessel disease

10% (n = 46)

Stroke of undetermined etiology

41% (n = 187)

Stroke of other determined etiology

5% (n = 24)