Editorial: Potential and failure of the ABCD2 score in stroke risk prediction after transient ischemic attack

Stroke

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 836-838

  Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^a   Heliopoulos, Ioannis ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

ABCD2 score; Stroke management; Transient ischemic attack

Indexed keywords

ABCD SCORE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EDITORIAL; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; LENGTH OF STAY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH DISORDER; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VALIDATION STUDY; WEAKNESS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; NOTE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING;

HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE;

EID: 77951766994     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.579169     Document Type: Editorial

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