Symptom progression or fluctuation in transient ischemic attack patients predicts subsequent stroke

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 221-227

  Nakajima, Makoto ^a   Hirano, Teruyuki ^b   Naritomi, Hiroaki ^a   Minematsu, Kazuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Patient interview; Predictors of subsequent stroke; Transient ischemic attack

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESIS; PREDICTION; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPEECH DISORDER; STENT; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PARESIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPEECH DISORDERS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77149130482     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000267844     Document Type: Article

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