10-15 Percent of Mini-Stroke Sufferers Have Full Strokes Within Three Months

Each year, as many as 500,000 Americans experience mini strokes called transient ischemic attacks (TIAs). Symptoms go away quickly, usually within an hour, and many people don’t seek treatment. But 10-15 percent of people who experience TIAs will have full-blown strokes within three months, and 40 percent of these strokes will occur in the first 24 hours, according to an article by three Loyola University Medical Center neurologists in the journal Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics.

Rapid evaluation and treatment of TIA patients, either in the emergency room or in specially designed TIA clinics, can reduce the risk of subsequent strokes, say authors Farrukh Chaudhry, MD, Jose Biller, MD; and Murray Flaster, MD, PhD. For more information, click here to read the full release.