The treatment of choice for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and a recent TIA is anticoagulation. Microscopic emboli are thought to form as the blood pools in the heart when a patient ...
Background: Patients who arrive at the emergency department (ED) with transient ischemic attacks (TIA) are at an increased risk of experiencing a stroke. These patients must undergo appropriate ...
Most patients with TIA and their families also have a knowledge ... of knowledge deficit related to risk factors and secondary prevention. The degree of readiness to change must also be assessed ...
Risk for incident stroke and transient ischemic attack, as well as major bleeding, is affected by severity of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction. An independent association exists between left ...
The BBB is severely disrupted during all kinds of strokes, which can lead to further injury and functional deficits. We measured several biomarkers related to BBB disruption to see if Vitamin D3 ...
U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock confronted Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, about his past comments comparing the CDC to "Nazi death camps." ...
Eight years ago, at the age of 53, Jeff Miller woke up, got out of bed and fell to the floor. Although he was having trouble seeing, he managed to get down the stairs to the first floor of his ...
From 1979-85, 2435 patients with a transient ischaemic attack or minor ischaemic stroke were randomly allocated to receive long term "blind" treatment with aspirin 600 mg twice daily (n = 815), ...