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Stroke, Vol 21, 40-46, Copyright © 1990 by American Heart Association

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Prolonged hypoperfusion and early stroke after transient ischemic attack

J Bogousslavsky, A Delaloye-Bischof, F Regli and B Delaloye
Department of Neurology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Many patients suffer a stroke early after a transient ischemic attack, but the reason why is often unclear. We studied 12 patients with less than 75% stenosis of the internal carotid artery and a single hemispheric transient ischemic attack lasting less than 1 hour who had a normal neurologic examination 3-13 hours later and a normal computed tomogram 24-36 hours later. Single-photon emission computed tomography using technetium-99m HM-PAO less than or equal to 50 hours after the attack showed no abnormality in eight patients, but in the other four there was an area with 30-50% reduction in perfusion ipsilateral to the transient ischemic attack. Three of these four patients developed an ipsilateral infarct 3-7 days later, but none of the eight patients with normal single-photon emission computed tomograms had a stroke during the following weeks. No difference in therapy, risk factors, severity of internal carotid artery disease, or timing of the technetium-99m study could explain these findings. We suggest that some transient ischemic attacks, though clinically identical to others, may be associated with persisting focal hypoperfusion, which predisposes to early stroke.

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