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Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Transient Ischemic Attack
Sections: Key Features, Essentials of Diagnosis, General Considerations, Demographics, Clinical Findings, Symptoms and Signs, Differential Diagnosis, Diagnosis, Laboratory Tests, Imaging Studies, Diagnostic Procedures, Treatment, Medications, Embolization from the heart, Noncardioembolic attacks, Surgery, Therapeutic Procedures, Outcome, Prognosis, Prevention, When to Refer, When to Admit, References,
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Topics Discussed: transient ischemic attack.
Excerpt: | |  Anticoagulants should be started immediately unless contraindicated
The fear of causing hemorrhage into an infarcted area is misplaced, since there is a far greater risk of further embolism to the cerebral circulation if treatment is withheld Use intravenous heparin while warfarin in introduced | | – Loading dose of 5000–10,000 units of standard molecular weight heparin – Maintenance infusion of 1000–2000 units/h, depending on the partial thromboplastin time |
Warfarin is more effective than aspirin in reducing the incidence of cardioembolic events, but when contraindicated, aspirin (325 mg once daily orally) may be used in nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation ..."
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