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Department of Neurology, Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
Transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) are not homogeneous and may consist of subsets with mechanisms as varied as their stroke counterparts. We describe a form of TIA in 50 patients where crescendo episodes of ischemia were restricted to the region of the internal capsule, usually causing symptoms affecting face, arm, and leg. These patients composed 4.5% of a consecutive series of patients admitted with TIAs over a 15-year period and 33% of all TIAs classified as subcortical. We believe that the ischemia was most often due to hemodynamic phenomena in diseased, single, small penetrating vessels. When cerebral infarction developed, it was usually lacunar and involved a single penetrating vessel, although occasionally striatocapsular or anterior choroidal artery territory infarction occurred. There was no evidence of artery-to-artery or heart-to-artery embolism. Resistance to various forms of therapy, including hemodiluting, anticoagulant, and thrombolytic agents, was common. Because of dramatic and easily recognizable clinical presentation, apparent specific pathophysiologic mechanism, and the development of early capsular stroke in a high proportion of cases (42%), we have termed this the "capsular warning syndrome."
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Geoffrey A. Donnan, Department of Neurology, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Vic. 3084, Melbourne, Australia.
Received May 1, 1992. Accepted for publication in final form September 4, 1992.
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