Relationships Between Recent Intraplaque Hemorrhage and Stroke Risk Factors in Patients With Carotid Stenosis

Abstract

Our findings support the potential link between recent IPH and risk of ipsilateral stroke in symptomatic disease but also imply that prognostic studies should adjust for known stroke risk factors in multivariate analyses. In asymptomatic stenosis, the potential predictive value of recent IPH is less likely to be confounded by stroke risk factors.