Management of the first-time transient ischaemic attack

Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 70-81

  Hankey, Graeme J ^a,b  

^a ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brain; Transient ischaemic attacks

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; DIPYRIDAMOLE;

ARTICLE; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HYSTERIA; MIGRAINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VERTIGO;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMBOLISM, CHOLESTEROL; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RECURRENCE; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 0035062816     PISSN: 10356851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-2026.2001.00183.x     Document Type: Article

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