What is the prognosis for someone who has experienced a transient ischemic attack?

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"What is the prognosis?

TIAs are often warning signs that a person is at risk for a more serious and debilitating stroke. About one-third of those who have a TIA will have an acute stroke some time in the future. Many strokes can be prevented by heeding the warning signs of TIAs and treating underlying risk factors. The most important treatable factors linked to TIAs and stroke are high blood pressure, cigarette smoking, heart disease, carotid artery disease, diabetes, and heavy use of alcohol. Medical help is available to reduce and eliminate these factors. Lifestyle changes such as eating a balanced diet, maintaining healthy weight, exercising, and enrolling in smoking and alcohol cessation programs can also reduce these factors. "

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The prognosis is very good, as long as you take care of yourself. It is a good warning sign that you can have a bad stroke in the future so you have to be very careful with your diet. Low fat, low cholesterol. Controlling blood pressure And a dose of baby aspirin a day is good to prevent future attack.

The prognosis for recovery from a TIA is very good. There should be no lasting effects greater than 24-48 hours after onset. As the name implies, it is a transient (something that will go away) ischemic (reduced blood flow) attack. As the previous respondies answered, it can ofter be the precursor to a real cerebral vascular accident/stroke; therefore, your best bets would be to watch the diet, blood pressure, cholesterol, stop smoking, quit taking birth control pills (if appropriate as it increases the risk for clotting). A true stroke can either be hemorrhagic (bleeding in the brain) which accounts for less than 10% of all strokes, or ischemic which is caused by a clot blocking blood flow to an area of the brain causing death of that tissue. A real stroke, although the damage is not always permenant (usually the person has some mild to marked residual effects), a TIA should never leave lasting physical deficits (weakness, speech difficulties). Make sure you are taking care of yourself in order to prevent having a real stroke, that prognosis is not as good.

if it is a transient attack,it means that the prognosis is good.
find out the cause for the attack.try toremove the cause. prevent the second attach..if the person has some other morbidity.try to corect it.get the electrocardiogram done and find out if some part of the heart is permanantly damaged or not,take regular medicines ,prescribed by a cardiologist,STOP SMOKING.
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