Clinical Scores for Predicting Recurrence After Transient Ischemic Attack or Stroke
News Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013STROKEAHA: March 12, 2013
Risk scores are commonly used in the prediction of disease outcome. In the context of cerebrovascular diseases, risk scores have been created to identify stroke risk after transient ischemic attack (TIA) and (minor) stroke, to identify subgroups of patients with high risk of stroke (for instance, correlated with grade of carotid stenosis), or to predict functional outcome after stroke.
Identifying high-risk patients after TIA is important because early assessment and management of these patients is pivotal. Read more
