TY  - JOUR
AU  - Mafael, V.
AU  - Buck, T.
AU  - Stengl, Helena
AU  - Hellwig, S.
AU  - Klammer, M. G.
AU  - Endres, M.
AU  - Reinthaler, M.
AU  - Barbieri, F.
AU  - Audebert, H. J.
AU  - Leistner, D. M.
AU  - Landmesser, U.
AU  - Döhner, W.
AU  - Skurk, C.
AU  - Scheitz, J. F.
TI  - Collaborative neurocardiology board meetings for decision-making in stroke care: a real-world experience.
JO  - Neurological research and practice
VL  - 8
IS  - 1
SN  - 2524-3489
CY  - [London]
PB  - BioMed Central
M1  - DZNE-2026-00153
SP  - 4
PY  - 2026
AB  - Interdisciplinary collaboration between neurologists and cardiologists is needed to provide state-of-the art stroke care and individualized decisions about secondary prevention strategies. This highlights the need to establish working structures for joint decision-making between cardiologists and stroke neurologists. At present, studies describing the real-world decision-making as part of such brain-heart teams are scarce.We established a structured heart–brain team approach with monthly virtual neurocardiology board (NCB) meetings within a neurovascular network. We conducted a retrospective analysis of the implementation phase of NCB meetings between 2021 and 2024. We describe the structure of board meetings, patient characteristics and therapeutic and diagnostic recommendations.During the study period, 46 board meetings were held, and 255 patients were discussed. The number of referred patients increased from 32 in 2021 to 89 in 2024. The majority of patients were evaluated for patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure (n = 189, 74.1
KW  - Brain‒heart teams (Other)
KW  - Collaboration (Other)
KW  - Left atrial appendage closure (Other)
KW  - Patent foramen ovale (Other)
KW  - Stroke (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:41634805
C2  - pmc:PMC12870955
DO  - DOI:10.1186/s42466-026-00464-w
UR  - https://pub.dzne.de/record/285028
ER  -