{"id":2492,"date":"2009-03-08T17:47:29","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T17:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/neuroabcd\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T19:09:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T19:09:55","slug":"neuroabcd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/neuroabcd\/","title":{"rendered":"ABCD2 Score for Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A simple score (ABCD2) to identify individuals at high early risk of stroke after transient ischemic attack.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><strong>A<\/strong> (Age); 1 point for age <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&gt;<\/span>60 years,<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><strong>B<\/strong> (Blood pressure <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&gt;<\/span> 140\/90 mmHg);1 point for hypertension at the acute evaluation,<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><strong>C<\/strong> (Clinical features); 2 points for unilateral weakness, 1 for speech disturbance without weakness, and<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><strong>D<\/strong> (symptom Duration); 1 point for 10\u201359 minutes, 2 points for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&gt;<\/span>60 minutes.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><strong>D<\/strong> (Diabetes); 1 point<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Total scores ranged from 0 (lowest risk) to 7 (highest risk).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Stroke risk at 2 days, 7 days, and 90 days:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Scores 0-3: low risk<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Scores 4-5: moderate risk<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Scores 6-7: high risk<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Johnston SC, Rothwell PM, Nguyen-Huynh MN, Giles MF, Elkins JS, Bernstein AL, Sidney S. Validation and refinement of scores to predict very early stroke risk after transient ischaemic attack. Lancet. 2007 Jan 27;369(9558):283-92. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/17258668\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Rothwell PM, Giles MF, Flossmann E, Lovelock CE, Redgrave JN, Warlow CP, Mehta Z. A simple score (ABCD) to identify individuals at high early risk of stroke after transient ischaemic attack. Lancet. 2005 Jul 2-8;366(9479):29-36. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/15993230\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created: Feb 14, 2007<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1498,1497,1496,762,1495,1300,450,1494,726,1499],"class_list":["post-2492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neurology","tag-abcd2","tag-ataque","tag-attack","tag-ischemic","tag-isquemico","tag-neurology","tag-score","tag-tia","tag-transient","tag-transitorio"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2492"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9373,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492\/revisions\/9373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}