Transient ischemic attacks: Predictability of future ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack events

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 27-35

  Gupta, Harsh V ^a   Farrell, Ann M ^b   Mittal, Manoj K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ischemic stroke; Prediction; Systematic review; Transient ischemic attack

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; MICRORNA;

ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SYNDROME DELINEATION; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

EID: 84892854244     PISSN: 11766336     EISSN: 1178203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/TCRM.S54810     Document Type: Article

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