Jae-Hwan Choi, Min-Gyu Park, Seo Young Choi, Kyung-Pil Park, Seung Kug Baik, Ji-Soo Kim, Kwang-Dong Choi
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of stroke and efficacy of bedside evaluation in diagnosing stroke in acute transient vestibular syndrome (ATVS). METHODS: We performed a prospective, single-center, observational study that had consecutively recruited 86 patients presenting with ATVS to the emergency department of Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital from January to December 2014. All patients received a constructed evaluation, including HINTS plus (head impulse, nystagmus patterns, test of skew, and finger rubbing) and brain magnetic resonance imagings...
March 2017: Stroke; a Journal of Cerebral Circulation