Mini-Stroke (Physician Education)

American Heart Association Updates "Mini-Stroke" Guidelines

Published in Blood Weekly, November 8th, 1999

New blood thinning medications are among the significant medical and surgical advances that have occurred over the past five years for the treatment of "mini-strokes," that have led to updated guidelines that appeared in the November 1999 issue of Stroke,a journal of the American Heart Association.

The updated transient ischemic attack (TIA) guidelines are aimed at helping physicians better treat patients who've had mini-strokes. A "mini-stroke" is actually a transient ischemic attack, which occurs when a blood clot briefly blocks an artery that supplies blood to the brain. The symptoms - which may last only a few minutes or several hours - include weakness or sudden...

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