Many people who experience a transient ischemic attack will go on to have a stroke within 90 days. Here are the red flags.

A neurological assessment is most commonly based on both subjective and objective data. Often there are no objective findings by the time the patient with TIA is seen by a healthcare professional ...

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Jeni Underhill didn't realise she was experiencing a mini-stroke until she had her second episode, and is now urging others ...

The other types of strokes include Transient Ischemic Attack, Cryptogenic Stroke and Brainstem Stroke. Dr Sadique Pathan, ...

Left atrial appendage occlusion vs continuation of oral anticoagulation therapy alone is linked to reduced ischemic stroke risk in select patients with nonvalvular AF.

Risk factors for stroke include old age, hypertension (high blood pressure), previous stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA), diabetes, high cholesterol, cigarette smoking and atrial fibrillation.

British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, Vol. 10, Issue. Sup6, p. 8. Shorten, Sara 2016. Should patients with a suspected transient ischaemic attack be investigated as an emergency?. British Journal ...

The participants were aged 18 years or older, resided in Denmark for 10 years or longer, and had no previous diagnosis of epilepsy or stroke (excluding transient ischemic attack). Individuals in ...

Each year in the United States 200,000 500,00bstract: 500,000 people have a transient ischemic attack (TIA). These episodes of brief neurologic deficits were thought to be fairly benign ...

So what exactly is a warning stroke? Medically, it’s referred to as a transient ischemic attack and causes “sudden-onset ...