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Stroke

Strokes due to cardiogenic embolism are caused by emboli (moving blood clots) that develop in the heart. The embolus travels through the bloodstream and becomes lodged in a small artery in the brain.

Reviewed last on: 2/20/2008
Harvey Simon, MD, Editor-in-Chief, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital.

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