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Mike Mitka

JAMA. 2005;293:1435.

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For many patients and their physicians, a transient ischemic attack (TIA) is an opportunity lost.

Too often, patients do not seek medical care after experiencing a passing numbness in the arm, blurred vision, or a moment of slurred speech. And for those who do present following such symptoms, physicians too often underestimate their near-future risk of a stroke or cardiovascular event and undertreat them, according to new research reported in February at the International Stroke Conference of the American Stroke Association, in New Orleans.

A University of Maryland Medical Center service is dedicated to rapidly evaluating patients with transient ischemic attack and advising secondary prevention measures. (Photo credit: University of Maryland Medical Center)

AGGRESSIVE TREATMENT NEEDED

"TIAs need to be treated as aggressively as stroke because the risk of subsequent stroke is as high. And this is the most important group to treat—patients who have yet to have a debilitating stroke," . . . [Full Text of this Article]