Footnotes

• Correction notice Since Online First publication, the author's affiliation has been updated.

• Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests None declared.

• Patient and public involvement Patients and/or the public were not involved in the design, or conduct, or reporting, or dissemination plans of this research.

• Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

• Author note Identification of the coexistence of high-grade carotid artery stenosis and atrial fibrillation generates an opportunity to implement measures that might mitigate the risk of subsequent occurrence of disabling stroke.