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Cancer-Related Stroke: An Emerging Subtype of Ischemic Stroke with Unique Pathomechanisms.


ABSTRACT: Systemic cancer and ischemic stroke are common conditions and two of the most frequent causes of death among the elderly. The association between cancer and stroke has been reported worldwide. Stroke causes severe disability for cancer patients, while cancer increases the risk of stroke. Moreover, cancer-related stroke is expected to increase due to advances in cancer treatment and an aging population worldwide. Because cancer and stroke share risk factors (such as smoking and obesity) and treatment of cancer can increase the risk of stroke (e.g., accelerated atherosclerosis after radiation therapy), cancer may accelerate conventional stroke mechanisms (i.e., atherosclerosis, small vessel disease, and cardiac thrombus). In addition, active cancer and chemotherapy may enhance thrombin generation causing stroke related to coagulopathy. Patients with stroke due to cancer-related coagulopathy showed the characteristics findings of etiologic work ups, D-dimer levels, and infarct patterns. In this review, we summarized the frequency of cancer-related stroke among patients with ischemic stroke, mechanisms of stroke with in cancer patients, and evaluation and treatment of cancer-related stroke. We discussed the possibility of cancer-related stroke as a stroke subtype, and presented the most recent discoveries in the pathomechanisms and treatment of stroke due to cancer-related coagulopathy.

SUBMITTER: Bang OY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7005348 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Cancer-Related Stroke: An Emerging Subtype of Ischemic Stroke with Unique Pathomechanisms.

Bang Oh Young OY   Chung Jong-Won JW   Lee Mi Ji MJ   Seo Woo-Keun WK   Kim Gyeong-Moon GM   Ahn Myung-Ju MJ  

Journal of stroke 20200131 1


Systemic cancer and ischemic stroke are common conditions and two of the most frequent causes of death among the elderly. The association between cancer and stroke has been reported worldwide. Stroke causes severe disability for cancer patients, while cancer increases the risk of stroke. Moreover, cancer-related stroke is expected to increase due to advances in cancer treatment and an aging population worldwide. Because cancer and stroke share risk factors (such as smoking and obesity) and treat  ...[more]

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