Predicting short-term risk of stroke after TIA.

نویسنده

  • Mark H Ebell
چکیده

Evidence Summary Five to 10 percent of patients presenting with TIA will have a stroke within the following week.1-3 Because guidelines do not mandate hospitalization for patients who have had a TIA or suspected TIA,4,5 validated clinical prediction rules may be used to identify patients who should definitely be hospitalized for expedited evaluation and patients for whom outpatient evaluation is a reasonable option. A study in 16 California hospitals retrospectively identified all patients diagnosed with TIA in the emergency department.2 A review of hospital and external medical records identified patients who had a stroke within 90 days of the emergency department visit. Stroke was confirmed by a consensus decision from two neurologists. The mean age of participants was 72 years. Of the 1,707 patients with TIA, 180 patients (10.5 percent) had a stroke within 90 days. One half of these strokes occurred within two days of initial presentation in the emergency department. Independent predictors of stroke were age greater than 60 years, diabetes mellitus, TIA duration greater than 10 minutes, and TIA with weakness or speech impairment. However, these results have not been validated in a separate group of patients and do not provide guidance regarding shorter-term risk of stroke.2 The ABCD (Age, Blood pressure, Clinical features, Duration of symptoms) rule for predicting stroke risk after TIA (Table 1)3 was developed using data from patients with possible TIA who were referred to a neurologist by their primary care physician from 1981 to 1986 and who, on further evaluation, were suspected to have a probable or definite TIA.3 The ABCD rule was validated in a separate group of patients from the Oxford Vascular Study who were referred from 2002 to 2004. The mean age was 69.5 years in the 375 patients with suspected TIA and 73.7 years in the 188 patients with probable or definite TIA. The overall risk of stroke within seven days of TIA was 5.3 percent in those with possible TIA and 10.5 percent in those with probable or definite TIA. Only one patient with a score of four or less and no patient with a score of three or less had a stroke within seven days of TIA.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • American family physician

دوره 74 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006