RT Book, Section
A1 Go, Steven
A2 Cydulka, Rita K.
A2 Fitch, Michael T.
A2 Joing, Scott A.
A2 Wang, Vincent J.
A2 Cline, David M.
A2 Ma, O. John
SR Print(0)
ID 1143143774
T1 Stroke Syndromes and Spontaneous Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
T2 Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine Manual, 8e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071837026
LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1143143774
RD 2024/04/24
AB Stroke  encompasses  any  disease  process  that  interrupts  normal  blood  flow  to  the  brain.  Ischemic  strokes  (87%)  are  more  common  than  intracerebral  hemorrhage  (10%)  or  nontraumatic  subarachnoid  hemorrhage  (SAH)  (3%)  (Table  141–1).  A  transient  ischemic  attack  (TIA)  is  a  transient  episode  of  neurological  dysfunction  caused  by  ischemia  but  without  an  acute  infarction  of  brain  tissue.  TIA  episodes  typically  lasts  less  than  1  to  2  hours,  but  duration  of  symptoms  alone  can  be  unreliable  in  discriminating  between  TIA  and  stroke  as  they  are  similar  disease  processes  on  a  continuum  of  severity.