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Table 2. Differences in sCeAD characteristics between those with sCeAD-related vessel steno-occlusion or diameter expansion at
baseline.
Baseline-dissection-related
Minor traumaa
Prior respiratory infection (⩽4 weeks)a
Anterior circulation sCeADa
Multiple single time-point sCeADa
Symptom to diagnosis (days)b
Duration hospital (days)b
Number of connective tissue stigmatab
Initial anticoagulationa
Follow-up
Recurrent dissectiona
Follow up vessel statusa,c
Normal
Stenosis
Occlusion
Aneurysm
Follow-up medicationa
Antiplatelet
oAC
sCeAD: spontaneous cervical artery dissection; IQR: interquartile range.
aN (%).
bMedian (IQR); oAC: Oral anticoagulation.
cMultiple vessel pathologies per patient possible.
Declaration of conflicting interests
The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect
to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Funding
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support
for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This
study is supported by VASCage-Research Centre on Clinical
Stroke Research. VASCage is a COMET Centre within the
Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies (COMET) program
and funded by the Federal Ministry for Climate Action,
Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology;
the Federal Ministry of Labour and Economy; and the federal
states of Tyrol, Salzburg, and Vienna. COMET is managed by
the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (Österreichische
Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft). FFG Project number: 898252.
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Lukas Mayer-Suess
Stefan Kiechl
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Steno-occlusive sCeAD
n = 187
71 (38.0)
23 (12.3)
83 (44.4)
24 (12.8)
7.8 (8.0)
10.9 (8.8)
0.8 (1.0)
(n = 166)131 (78.9)
Expansive sCeAD
n = 34
8 (23.5)
9 (26.5)
15 (44.1)
5 (14.7)
17.8 (21.8)
11.5 (7.0)
0.8 (1.0)
26 (76.5)
7 (3.7)
(n = 96)63 (65.6)
(n = 96)12 (12.5)
(n = 96)15 (15.6)
(n = 96)11 (11.5)
1 (2.9)
(n = 17)8 (47.1)
(n = 17)1 (5.9)
(n = 17)4 (23.5)
(n = 17)7 (41.2)
p
0.09
0.03
1.00
0.78
0.02
0.74
0.68
0.57
0.82
0.13
0.23
0.29
<0.01
(n = 132)78 (59.1)
(n = 132)4 (3.0)
18 (52.9)
0 (0.0)
0.46
0.35
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