Acute Cardioembolic and Thrombotic Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusions Have Different Morphological Susceptibility Signs on T2-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Images

Table 1

Clinical manifestations and risk factors of CE and LAA patients with acute MCA occlusions.

Types	Total ()	CE ()	LAA ()	/ values	values
Sex (male/female)	63/21	14/4	49/17		0.762
Mean age (years, mean ± SD)	64.1 ± 10.8	70.5 ± 5.9	62.3 ± 11.2		0.004
Hypertension history (, %)	56 (66.7)	11 (61.1)	45 (68.2)		0.578
Diabetes history (, %)	25 (29.8)	6 (33.3)	19 (28.8)		0.713
Coronary heart disease history (, %)	24 (28.6)	9 (50.0)	15 (22.7)		0.023
Hyperlipidemia history (, %)	48 (57.1)	12 (66.7)	36 (54.6)		0.363
Smoking history (, %)	29 (34.5)	5 (27.8)	24 (36.4)		0.503
NIHSS score at admission (mean ± SD)	11.3 ± 5.0	14.8 ± 5.3	10.3 ± 4.6		0.001
NIHSS score at 1 week later (mean ± SD)	9.1 ± 6.0	12.2 ± 6.3	8.3 ± 5.7		0.014