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Decrease in Hospital Admissions for Transient Ischemic Attack, Mild, and Moderate Stroke During the COVID-19 Era

Stroke, 2020
Background and Purpose: Since the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, doctors and public authorities have demonstrated concern about the reduction in quality of care for other health conditions due to social restrictions and lack ...
Henrique Diegoli, Pedro S.C. Magalhães, S. Martins, C. Moro, Paulo H. C. França, J. Safanelli, V. Nagel, V. Venancio, R. Liberato, A. Longo   +9 more
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Can Emergency Physicians Perform Carotid Artery Point-of-Care Ultrasound to Detect Stenosis in Patients with TIA and Stroke? A Pilot Study [PDF]

, 2020
Introduction: Patients with severe, symptomatic carotid stenosis can have their subsequent stroke risk reduced by surgical intervention if performed soon after a transient ischemic attack (TIA) or stroke.
Nemnom, Marie-Joe, Park, Lily, Perry, Jeffrey J., Stotts, Grant, Suttie, Robert, Woo, Michael Y.   +5 more
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Antiplatelet Therapy in Ischemic Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack.

Stroke, 2019
Stroke is a leading cause of mortality and disability worldwide. Initial manifestations of acute cerebral ischemia, such as ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA), are often followed by recurrent vascular events, including recurrent stroke ...
D. Hackam, J. Spence
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Diagnostic criteria for transient ischemic attack

Неврология, нейропсихиатрия, психосоматика, 2018
The diagnosis of transient ischemic attack (TIA) is fraught with problems; particularly this concerns the differentiation of TIA with its mimicking conditions. Explicit diagnostic criteria can improve the accuracy of TIA recognition.
E. R. Lebedeva, N. M. Gurary, J. Olesen
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Stroke Mimic: A Case of Unilateral Thyrotoxic Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis [PDF]

, 2020
Thyrotoxic hypokalemic periodic paralysis (THPP) is a condition that results in transient skeletal muscle paralysis secondary to intracellular potassium sequestration.
Lajeunesse, Michael, Young, Scott
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Disability After Minor Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack in the POINT Trial

Stroke, 2020
Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. Background and Purpose— While combination aspirin and clopidogrel reduces recurrent stroke compared with aspirin alone in patients with transient ischemic attack (TIA) or minor stroke, the effect on ...
B. Cucchiara, J. Elm, J. Easton, S. Coutts, Joshua Z. Willey, M. Biros, M. Ross, S. C. Johnston   +7 more
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Cardiac Findings Following Cerebrovascular Disease

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Background Accumulating evidence suggests that cardiac findings after stroke are an important, yet understudied, manifestation of brain–heart interactions.
Marco H. Rohner, Catherine Gebhard, Andreas Luft, Martin Hänsel, Susanne Wegener   +4 more
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Quantifying the risk of heart disease following acute ischaemic stroke: a meta-analysis of over 50 000 participants [PDF]

, 2015
Objective Following an acute stroke, there is a high risk of recurrence. However, the leading cause of mortality following a stroke is due to coronary artery disease (CAD) and myocardial infarction (MI) but that risk has not been robustly quantified.
Bentley, P, Gunnoo, T, Hasan, N, Khan, MS, Sharma, P, Slark, J   +5 more
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Comparison of statins for secondary prevention in patients with ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

BMC Medicine, 2019
BackgroundStatins may prevent recurrent ischemic events after ischemic stroke. Determining which statin to use remains controversial. We aimed to summarize the evidence for the use of statins in secondary prevention for patients with ischemic stroke by ...
I. Tramacere, G. Boncoraglio, R. Banzi, C. Del Giovane, K. Kwag, A. Squizzato, L. Moja   +6 more
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Outcomes after Perioperative Transient Ischemic Attack Following Cardiac Surgery

Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease
Perioperative transient ischemic attacks (PTIAs) are associated with significantly increased rates of postoperative complications such as low cardiac output, atrial fibrillation, and significantly higher mortality in cardiac procedures.
Urvish Jain, Bhav Jain, James Brown, Ibrahim B. Sultan, Floyd Thoma, Katherine M. Anetakis, Jeffrey R. Balzer, Kathirvel Subramaniam, Sarah Yousef, Yisi Wang, Raul Nogueira, Parthasarathy D. Thirumala   +11 more
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