Stroke Alert January 2023

<p>On Episode 24 of the <em>Stroke Alert</em> Podcast, host Dr. Negar Asdaghi highlights two articles from the January 2023 issue of <em>Stroke</em>: “<a href= "https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.122.038600">Covert Brain Infarction as a Risk Factor for Stroke Recurrence in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation</a>” and “<a href= "https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.122.039235">Subarachnoid Hemorrhage During Pregnancy and Puerperium</a>.” She also interviews Dr. Georgios Tsivgoulis about his article “<a href= "https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.122.040671">Clinical, Neuroimaging, and Genetic Markers in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy-Related Inflammation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis</a>.”</p> <p>Dr. Negar Asdaghi:         Let's start with some questions.</p> <p>1) When during pregnancy is an intracranial aneurysm at the highest risk of rupture?</p> <p>2) What does the presence of covert brain infarcts mean in the setting of atrial fibrillation?</p> <p>3) And, finally, how is the inflammatory form of cerebral amyloid angiopathy different from the classic CAA form, and why is it important to differentiate between the two?</p> <p>We'll be answering these questions and much more in today's podcast. We're covering the latest in cerebrovascular disorders, and this is the best in <em>Stroke</em>. Stay with us.</p> <p>Welcome back to another issue of the <em>Stroke Alert</em> Podcast. My name is Negar Asdaghi. I'm an Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and your host for the monthly <em>Stroke Alert</em> Podcast. Together with my co-editors, Drs. Nastajjia Krementz and Eric Goldstein, here's our article selection for the month of January. Symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage is a feared complication of reperfusion therapies in acute stroke, so there's a lot of interest in looking for predictors of development of this complication, especially when you're making decisions for pursuing endovascular therapy. For many years now, we'v