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Luciano Sposato
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Research
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Latest papers
Stroke Burden Attributable to Risk Factors in the Americas, 1990 to 2021: A Temporal Trends Analysis From the GBD Study 2021.
Journal of the American Heart Association · 2026
Code Stroke Activation Following Cardiac Catheterization Procedures: Contrast-Induced Encephalopathy Versus Stroke.
Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions · 2026
Implementation of stroke prevention: a review of challenges and opportunities in the Americas.
Lancet regional health. Americas · 2026
Latest funding
- $971,550
EAST-STROKE: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Rhythm Control vs. Standard of Care for Atrial Fibrillation in Acute Ischemic Stroke
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
- $673,159
The RESOLVE Trial: Reducing Embolic Stroke with Optimal Antithrombotic Therapy in Left Ventricular Injury and Low Ejection Fraction
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $546,976
The Direct Oral anticoagulants International Thrombolysis (DO-IT) trial
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
13 publications.
Stroke Burden Attributable to Risk Factors in the Americas, 1990 to 2021: A Temporal Trends Analysis From the GBD Study 2021.
Fregni F, Almarie B, Martinez R, Olavarría VV, Abanto C, Alet M, Alvarez TF, Amaya P, Ameriso SF, Arauz A, Barboza MA, Bayona H, Bernabé-Ortiz A, Calleja J, Cano-Nigenda V, Carbonera LA, Carrillo-Larco RM, Corredor A, de Souza AC, Diestro JD, Guerrero R, Jimenez C, Lanas F, Martins S, Muñoz-Venturelli P, Navia V, Novarro-Escudero N, Ovbiagele B, Pontes-Neto O, Ordunez P, Pujol V, Rabinstein AA, Rosales J, Rosende A, Silva GS, Saposnik G, Sen S, Sposato L, Testai FD, Urrutia V, Anderson CS, Lavados PM
Code Stroke Activation Following Cardiac Catheterization Procedures: Contrast-Induced Encephalopathy Versus Stroke.
Dardas S, Sposato L, Ayan D, Bagur R
Implementation of stroke prevention: a review of challenges and opportunities in the Americas.
Martins SO, Ordunez P, Borelli WV, Ovbiagele B, Urrutia VC, Abanto C, Alet MJ, Almarie B, Alvarez TF, Amaya P, Ameriso S, Arauz A, Barboza MA, Bayona H, Calleja J, Cano-Nigenda V, Carbonera LA, Carrillo-Larco RM, Constanzo F, Corredor A, de Souza AC, Diestro JD, Fregni F, Guerrero R, Jimenez C, Lanas F, Martinez R, Moro C, Muñoz-Venturelli P, Navia V, Novarro-Escudero N, Olavarría VV, Bernabé-Ortiz A, Pontes-Neto O, Pujol V, Rabinstein AA, Rosales J, Rosende A, Silva GS, Saposnik G, Sen S, Sposato L, Testai FD, Anderson CS, Lavados PM
Epidemiology and risk factors of stroke in the Americas: a comprehensive narrative literature review.
Silva GS, Diestro JD, Tarzi C, Kishibe T, Bernabé-Ortiz A, Carrillo-Larco RM, Ovbiagele B, Saposnik G, Abanto C, Alet M, Almarie B, Alvarez TF, Amaya P, Ameriso S, Arauz A, Barboza MA, Bayona H, Calleja J, Cano-Nigenda V, Carbonera LA, Corredor A, de Souza AC, Fregni F, Guerrero R, Jimenez C, Lanas F, Martinez R, Martins S, Muñoz-Venturelli P, Navia V, Novarro-Escudero N, Olavarría VV, Pontes-Neto O, Ordunez P, Pujol V, Rabinstein AA, Rosales J, Rosende A, Sen S, Sposato L, Testai FD, Urrutia V, Anderson CS, Lavados PM
Clinical impact of Takotsubo syndrome in patients with stroke.
Jang SS, Sposato L, Scheitz JF, Choi YH, Geressu A, Tzemos N, Ayan D, Mamas MA, Bagur R
Promoting collaboration at the brain-heart interface.
Wood H, Sposato L
Biomarkers for advancing diagnosis and prognosis in stroke
Tiedt S, Bustamante A, Cameron A, Camps-Renom P, Grosse GM, Ospel J, Volbers B, Audebert HJ, Aulin J, Cheng B
Aspiration Versus Stent-Retriever as First-Line Endovascular Therapy Technique for Primary Medium and Distal Intracranial Occlusions: A Propensity-Score Matched Multicenter Analysis.
Siegler JE, Shaikh H, Khalife J, Oak S, Zhang L, Abdalkader M, Klein P, Nguyen TN, Kass-Hout T, Morsi RZ, Heit JJ, Regenhardt RW, Diestro JDB, Cancelliere NM, Ghozy S, Sweid A, Naamani KE, Amllay A, Meyer L, Dusart A, Bellante F, Forestier G, Rouchaud A, Saleme S, Mounayer C, Fiehler J, Kühn AL, Puri AS, Dyzmann C, Kan PT, Colasurdo M, Marnat G, Berge J, Barreau X, Sibon I, Nedelcu S, Henninger N, Marotta TR, Das AS, Stapleton CJ, Rabinov JD, Ota T, Dofuku S, Yeo LLL, Tan BYQ, Martinez-Gutierrez JC, Salazar-Marioni S, Sheth SA, Renieri L, Capirossi C, Mowla A, Tjoumakaris SI, Jabbour P, Khandelwal P, Biswas A, Clarençon F, Elhorany M, Premat K, Valente I, Pedicelli A, Filipe JP, Varela R, Quintero-Consuegra M, Gonzalez NR, Möhlenbruch MA, Jesser J, Costalat V, Ter Schiphorst A, Yedavalli V, Harker P, Chervak LM, Aziz Y, Bullrich MB, Sposato L, Gory B, Hecker C, Killer-Oberpfalzer M, Griessenauer CJ, Thomas AJ, Hsieh CY, Liebeskind DS, Radu RA, Alexandre AM, Tancredi I, Faizy TD, Fahed R, Weyland C, Patel AB, Pereira VM, Lubicz B, Guenego A, Dmytriw AA, MAD‐MT Consortium
Chronic Oral Anticoagulation Therapy and Prognosis of Patients Admitted to Hospital for COVID-19: Insights from the HOPE COVID-19 Registry.
Rivera-Caravaca JM, Núñez-Gil IJ, Lip GYH, Uribarri A, Viana-Llamas MC, Gonzalez A, Castro-Mejía AF, Alonso González B, Alfonso E, García Prieto JF, Cavallino C, Cortese B, Feltes G, Fernández-Rozas I, Signes-Costa J, Huang J, García Aguado M, Pepe M, Romero R, Cerrato E, Becerra-Muñoz VM, Raposeiras Roubin S, Santoro F, Bagur R, Sposato L, El-Battrawy I, López Masjuan A, Fernandez-Ortiz A, Estrada V, Macaya C, Marín F
Case-Fatality and Functional Outcome after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (SAH) in INternational STRoke oUtComes sTudy (INSTRUCT).
Rehman S, Phan HT, Reeves MJ, Thrift AG, Cadilhac DA, Sturm J, Breslin M, Callisaya ML, Vemmos K, Parmar P, Krishnamurthi RV, Barker-Collo S, Feigin V, Chausson N, Olindo S, Cabral NL, Carolei A, Marini C, Degan D, Sacco S, Correia M, Appelros P, Kõrv J, Vibo R, Minelli C, Sposato L, Pandian JD, Kaur P, Azarpazhooh MR, Morovatdar N, Gall S
EAST-STROKE: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Rhythm Control vs. Standard of Care for Atrial Fibrillation in Acute Ischemic Stroke
Principal investigators: Sposato, Luciano A; Hill, Michael D; Shoamanesh, Ashkan; Yogendrakumar, Vignan
Keywords: Atrial Fibrillation; Brain-Heart Connection; Canadian Stroke Population; Cardiovascular Outcomes; Early Rhythm Control; Randomized Controlled Trial; Secondary Prevention
The RESOLVE Trial: Reducing Embolic Stroke with Optimal Antithrombotic Therapy in Left Ventricular Injury and Low Ejection Fraction
Principal investigators: Gladstone, David J; Merkler, Alexander; Sharma, Richa
Keywords: Anticoagulation; Cardiac Embolism; Cardiology; Echocardiography; Left Ventricular Dysfunction; Prevention; Stroke
The Direct Oral anticoagulants International Thrombolysis (DO-IT) trial
Principal investigators: Catanese, Luciana; Katsanos, Aristeidis; Shoamanesh, Ashkan
Keywords: Acute Ischemic Stroke; Atrial Fibrillation; Direct Oral Anticoagulants; Intracranial Hemorrhage; Randomized Controlled Trials; Thrombolysis
Characterizing cerebral thrombus composition with Phase-based MRI
Principal investigators: Drangova, Maria
Keywords: Atrial Fibrillation; Cardiac Imaging; Cerebrovascular Imaging; Magnetic Field Mapping; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Phase; Quantitative Imaging; Stroke; Susceptibility; Thrombus
SECRET: Study of rivaroxaban for CeREbral venous Thrombosis
Principal investigators: Field, Thalia S
Keywords: Anticoagulation; Cerebral Venous Thrombosis; Cognition; Health Economics; Patient-Centered Outcomes; Prognosis; Rare Diseases
Characterizing cerebral thrombus composition with Phase-based MRI
Principal investigators: Drangova, Maria
Keywords: Atrial Fibrillation; Cerebrovasuclar Imaging; Magnetic Field Mapping; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Phase; Quantitative Imaging; R2*; Stroke; Susceptibility; Thrombus
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Clinical Neurological Sciences
- Department of Medicine
- Medicine
- Radiology
- Department of Psychiatry
Co-authors at Western University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Gustavo Saposnik
Department of Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2026
Rodrigo Bagur
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
3 shared papers, latest 2026
Naghmeh Mokhber
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Aristeidis Katsanos
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Yun-Hee Choi
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Johanna Ospel
Radiology
1 shared papers, latest 2026
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