Table 1.

Causes of stroke in young-Ischemic.

Cardioembolic		Vasculitis		Others
Common	Less common	Common	Less common	Common	Less common
Rheumatic heart disease	Patent foramen ovale	Infections	Polyarteritis nodosa	Atheroscler otic vascular disease	MELAS
Prosthetic valve	Myxoma and other tumors	Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome [7, 8]	Takayasu's arteritis	Arterial dissection	Prothrombotic states
Atrial fibrillation	Acute myocardial infarction	Systemic lupus erythematosus	Wegener's granulomatosis		Sickle cell disorder
Bacterial endocarditis	Mitral valve prolapsed				Protein C/S deficiency [9]
	Atrial and ventricular septal defects				Fibromuscular dysplasia [10]
					Polycythemia vera
					Antithrombin III deficiency [11]
					Paroxysmal
					Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria
					CADASIL and CARASIL [12]
					Fabry's disease
					Familial hypercholesterolemia [13]
					Thrombophilia [14]
					Hyperhomocytienemia [15]
					Migraine [16]
					Hyperthyroidism [17]