Giroud M, Gras P, Milan C, Vion P, Essayagh E, Dumas R
Registre Dijonnais des Accidents Vasculaires Cérébraux (INSERM/DGS), Service de Neurologie, CHU Dijon.
Rev Neurol (Paris). 1992;148(8-9):576-9.
In a prospective study, thirty six out of 175 consecutive patients (21%) with transient ischemic attack (TIA), had cerebral infarction on CT-scan. This group of patients differed from the group without cerebral infarction by a higher age, a longer duration of neurological deficit, a greater frequency of neurological history, vertebro-basilar TIAs, cephalagia and, cardiac arrhythmia, and by a higher 2-year mortality rate. Due to their difference in etiological factors and prognosis, TIAs with cerebral infarction on CT-scan should be differentiated from those without cerebral infarction.
