A transient ischemic attack (TIA) is similar to a stroke. Your blood delivers oxygen to every part of your body, and your cells need it to survive. If your blood flow gets blocked, ...

While strokes are widely recognized as a major cause of long-term disability in the United States, their quieter cousin, the ...

A transient ischemic attack (spelled ischaemic in British English) (abbreviated as TIA, often referred to as mini stroke) is a transient episode of neurologic dysfunction caused by ischemia (loss ...

The causes of transient ischemic attack (TIA) are identical to those for stroke; however, there are many unresolved issues regarding acute treatment for TIA. Here Mai Nguyen-Huynh and S Claiborne ...

Each year in the United States 200,000 500,00bstract: 500,000 people have a transient ischemic attack (TIA). These episodes of brief neurologic deficits were thought to be fairly benign, but this ...

The second is the episode you are calling a stroke, but what medical experts would call a transient ischemic attack (TIA). It’s similar to a stroke, except that its effects are not permanent and ...

In the study, "Cognitive Decline After First-Time Transient Ischemic Attack," published in JAMA Neurology, researchers analyzed data from the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in ...

China: A new study published in Nature and Science of Sleep has found that patients with stroke or transient ischemic attack ...

Symptoms of transient ischemic attack (TIA) are not uniform for all individuals and depend on the area of the brain involved in the attack. The symptoms are identical to those of stroke but caused ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My father is in his mid-60s and recently underwent surgery to repair mitral valve prolapse. Everything went smoothly, and his recovery has been good, with the exception of this ...

The second is the episode you are calling a stroke, but what medical experts would call a transient ischemic attack (TIA). It’s similar to a stroke, except that its effects are not permanent and last ...