TIA-to-Stroke Risk Prediction Easy As A-B-C-D2 - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26 -- A new prognostic tool called ABCD2 for predicting the early risk of stroke after transient ischemic attack (TIA) may help physicians determine which patients need emergency care, according to researchers here.
Action Points
* Explain to interested patients that after a TIA most strokes occur within the first days or weeks.
* Point out to patients that risk prediction tools help physicians determine which patients may need hospitalization and emergency care due to their high risk for a stroke after TIA.
The ABCD2 scoring system tended to predict short-term stroke risk better than the two existing longer-term risk prediction scales, reported S. Claiborne Johnston, M.D., of the University of California San Francisco, and colleagues, in the Jan. 27 issue of The Lancet.
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