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Transient ischemic attack (TIA), is temporary attack that happens to the brain of a person in which the blood supply is blocked to any area of the brain. The person, as a result, becomes weak and is unable to perform any normal daily activities of life. TIA may happen to a lot of people but it may go unnoticeable due to extremely busy lives of some people. Thus, in order check if a person had a TIA attack the ABCD2 Score has been launched.
Since day one, the ABCD2 Score has been common among the people in the field of medicine. The medical experts prescribe the Score in order to diagnose the TIA and also to suggest further check-ups and medications. The Transient ischemic attack (TIA) should not be taken from granted as it may result worse brain damage. The Score will help the patient get cured of brain impairment of some kind.
The involvement of c statistic is renowned to the California scores and ABCD, however, the ABCD2 score is known for its authenticity. The latter forecasts the possibility of a stroke 2 days, or 7 days, or 3 months after the TIA. There are still some people who hold a critical view of ABCD2 Score for just considering the medical matters and not encouraging further examination of the patients.
Furthermore, the Score is analytical of carotid embolic sources, but it is not purposeful for cardiac emboli sources. In the year 2007, the Lancet published that the need for this study was to create a tool for recognizing patients who have chances of getting a stroke post-TIA. The score of ABCD2 was launched after the merging of the authentic scores of ABCD and California.
The readers must know that the ABCD score predicted a possibility of stroke one week from Transient ischemic attack (TIA), and the California score highlighted a chance of stroke after 3 months. Both of the scores had unique characteristics, thus they were combined together in order to create a more sophisticated model to recognize the patients who may get a stroke after 2 days of the TIA. This is how urgent cases are handled easily.
In the Oxfordshire, UK and in Northern California, USA research was carried out which highlighted that the c statistic was computed to check the possibility. The factors from California scores and ABCD were combined and tested for c statistics in them. The research was done with the 4,809 patients of TIA. As a result, the new score was known as the ABCD2 score, as it considered the blood pressure, age, duration, medical characteristics, and the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus.
The scores of ABCD2 were categorized in low- tendency, moderate-, and high-risk propensities. There is a likelihood that the strokes may occur more with ABCD2 scores of ≥4. The patients who fall in the category of moderate- and high-risk tendencies also need clinical treatment in order to minimize the chance of stroke.