Transient ischemic attack: Definition and natural history

Current Atherosclerosis Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 276-280

  Caplan, Louis R ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ANGINA PECTORIS; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETINA ISCHEMIA; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT;

EID: 33745913598     PISSN: 15233804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11883-006-0004-1     Document Type: Review

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