definitions
Last reviewed 01/2018
The following types of strokes and stroke-like syndromes are defined according to the severity of symptoms:
- transient ischaemic attack
- completed stroke:
- minor (reversible ischaemic neurological deficit) - symptoms last longer than 24 hours and less than seven days
- major - last longer than 7 days
- evolving stroke - stroke in evolution
reversible ischaemic neurologic deficit
cryptogenic stroke and embolic stroke of undertermined source (ESUS)