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Stroke & TIA

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Stroke is an acute focal neurological deficit of vascular origin lasting 24 hours (or causing death), while a transient ischaemic attack (TIA) is a transient episode of neurological dysfunction caused by focal ischaemia without acute infarction. "Time is brain" — every minute of large-vessel occlusion destroys ~1.9 million neurons, which is why stroke is a hyperacute emergency on par with STEMI. A stroke is sudden

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