TIAs and mini-stroke risks: Cardiologist shares warning signs and prevention tips
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Transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) — or mini-strokes — can be just as serious as a stroke. Dr. Karishma Patwa, a cardiologist with Manhattan Cardiology, shares tips for diagnosing, treating and preventing.
Transient ischemic attacks, or TIAs — sometimes also called mini-strokes — are also ischemic attacks, but they only last for a few minutes before blood flow is restored. The symptoms may last for less than a day, and often just a matter of minutes or even seconds, but this should still be treated as a medical emergency. Melissa Rudy is health editor and a member of the lifestyle team at Fox News Digital.
That doesn’t mean they’re any less serious than a full-fledged stroke, though, noted Dr. Karishma Patwa, a cardiologist with Manhattan Cardiology, which provides cardiac testing and preventive treatment in New York.