What is a minor stroke?

Stroke

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 661-666

  Fischer, Urs ^a   Baumgartner, Adrian ^a   Arnold, Marcel ^a   Nedeltchev, Krassen ^a   Gralla, Jan ^b   De Marchis, Gian Marco ^a   Kappeler, Liliane ^a   Mono, Marie Luise ^a   Brekenfeld, Caspar ^b   Schroth, Gerhard ^b   Mattle, Heinrich P ^a  

^a Departments of Neurology   (Swaziland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Definitions; Minor stroke; NIHSS; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HOME; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LACUNAR LIKE SYNDROME; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MINOR STROKE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NEGLECT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SEX RATIO; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; STROKE; SYMPTOM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; MEDLINE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77950224872     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.572883     Document Type: Article

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