Preventing Ischemic Stroke in Patients With Prior Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack
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Preventing stroke after transient ischemic attack.
ischemic or hemorrhagic cause. It is now clear that transient ischemic attack and minor ischemic stroke are highly predictive of a subsequent disabling ischemic stroke within hours or days. The critical clinical problems for physicians and nurse practitioners who evaluate these patients are to identify that the patient has had a stroke or transient ischemic attack and to stratify risk to determ...
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Stroke, the third leading cause of death in the United States, is a leading cause of adult neurological disability and accounts for the greatest number of hospitalizations for neurological disease. Although treatment of acute stroke has the potential of reducing death and disability, it is likely that prevention will more effectively reduce the ravages of stroke. The patient who is recovering f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Stroke
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0039-2499,1524-4628
DOI: 10.1161/01.str.30.9.1991