Transient ischemic attack patients with fluctuations are at highest risk for early stroke

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 594-598

  Chatzikonstantinou, Anastasios ^a   Willmann, Olaf ^a   Jäger, Theo ^a   Szabo, K ^a   Hennerici, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Stroke risk factors; Transient ischemic attack; Unstable fluctuation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; REMISSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 65449157688     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000214224     Document Type: Article

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