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Keeping Faith With Patients After Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack
I recently recommended statin therapy to a 68-year-old patient, explaining that it would reduce his risk of a major coronary event or stroke in the next 10 years from 18% to 15%. He asked, “But how will we know if it works?” I confessed we never would because success would be an uneventful walk through good health. He was not sold.
Source: JAMA Neurology - February 5, 2018 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Cerebral Microbleeds and Early Recurrent Stroke After Transient Ischemic Attack Results from the Korean Transient Ischemic Attack Expression Registry
Conclusions and RelevanceImmediate and optimal management seems to modify the risk of recurrent stroke after TIA. Cerebral microbleeds may be novel predictors of stroke recurrence, which needs further validation.
Source: JAMA Neurology - January 12, 2015 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
