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CT Helps ABCD Score Predict Stroke After Ischemic Attack
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Title CT Helps ABCD Score Predict Stroke After Ischemic Attack
Url http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/570391?src=rss
Description The predictive ability of a 6-point score based on age, blood pressure, clinical features and duration (ABCD) is improved by the addition of CT imaging in identifying patients with a high stroke risk after a transient ischemic attack, Italian researchers report. Reuters Health Information
Category Articles > Emergency Medicine
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Date Feb 21, 2008
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