Atrial fibrillation risk score for stroke patients
Diagnostic
In some patients who have had a stroke, an abnormal heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation (AF) increases the risk of blood clots forming and second strokes.
As a result, people who have had a stroke undergo heart monitoring in the days after, and if AF is detected, they are given drugs known as anticoagulants to prevent blood clots.
This project aims to develop a risk score for how likely a person to develop AF, to reduce unnecessary testing but also improve detection of AF through more rigorous testing in those who need it. This will improve AF diagnosis and treatment therefore and reduce rate of recurrent stroke.
The development of a new AI-supported model for imaging the heart based on data from over 700 people with atrial fibrillation, allow ablation to be more personalised to individual patients.
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