Table 1: Cases of LE included in the study.
Aspirin Second antiplatelet Statins Anticoagulation Valvular surgery
1. 1997, Nighoghossianet al. [5] LMCA ✓
2. 1997, Nighoghossian et al. [5] LMCA ✓
3. 1997, Nighoghossianet al. [5] LMCA ✓ ✓, after recurrent stroke
4. 1999, Vorgos et al. [6] RMCA
5. 2003, Aggarwal et al. [7] RMCA ✓, after recurrent stroke
6. 2006, Siles Rubio et al. [8] LMCA ✓
7. 2007, Aziz et al. [9] LMCA ✓
8. 2007, Wolf et al. [10] LMCA ✓
9. 2010, Kalavakunta et al. [11] Bilateral B/L cerebral hemispheres ✓
10. 2011, Raju et al. [12] Right posterior circulation ✓
11. 2011, Manolakis et al. [13] Right frontal and right cerebellar ✓ ✓
12. 2012, Liu et al. [14] Left cerebellar hemisphere ✓
13. 2012, Liu et al. [14] Corpus Callosum, right Temporal-Parietal lobe ✓
14. 2013, Al-Ansari et al. [15] Right Frontoparietal, left Thalamus ✓
15. 2013, Wu et al. [16] Left posterior cerebral artery ✓
16. 2014, Veloria et al. [17] Left central pons and corpus callosum ✓ ✓
17. 2014, Yacoub et al. [18] LMCA ✓ ✓
18. 2015, Kitchool et al.[19] Right thalamus, posterior capsule ✓ ✓
19. 2015, Chu et al. [20] Right Corona radiata, Centrum Semiovale, right cerebral hemisphere ✓ ✓
20. 2015, Villella et al. [21] Left optic artery ✓
21. 2015, Dumitrascu et al. [22] Left parietal lobe, bilateral centrum semiovale, right occipital ✓ ✓
22. 2015, Davogustto et al. [23] Left centrum Semiovale ✓
23. 2016, Kamran et al. [24] LMCA ✓ ✓
24. 2016, Jo et al. [25] RMCA ✓ ✓
25. 2016, Jo et al. [25] LMCA ✓
26. 2017, Meireleset al. [26] Right occipital Lobe, cerebellar hemispheres ✓
27` 2017, Vlacancich et al. [27] Right precentral gyrus ✓ ✓
LMCA= left middle cerebral artery, RMCA= right middle cerebral artery