Table 2 Other determined stroke causes in young female and male acute ischemic stroke patients

3 × Pulmonary shunts with thrombophilia

Carotid web

3 × perioperative stroke (+ thrombophilia

in 2 patients)

Bow Hunter’s syndrome

2 × Gynecological malignancy with documented hypercoagulable state

Hepatitis C, heroin and cocaine intoxication

2 × Antiphospholipid syndrome

Thrombocytosis

Hodgkin’s Disease and thrombophilia

Active neurosyphilis with cerebral vasculitis

Factor V Leiden mutation with resistance to activated protein C and smoking

Partially thrombosed aneurysm of the basilar artery

Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome