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Table 8 Breakdown of other specified causes of stroke in the different groups

From: Differences in the distribution of stroke subtypes in a UK black stroke population – final results from the South London Ethnicity and Stroke Study

  Black White
CADASIL 1 0
MELAS 1 0
Drug related 1 1
Endocarditis 0 2
HIV 3 1
Vasculitis 4 1
Cervical artery dissection 22 25
Sickle cell disease 7 0
Coagulopathy 10 2
Cancer 2 8
Iatrogenic 6 8
Total number of patients 57 48
  1. CADASIL, Cerebral Autosomal-Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy; MELAS, Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes; HIV, Human immunodeficiency virus
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