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Table 4 Comorbidity

From: Long term evolution of patients treated in a TIA unit

Cardiological

Neoplastic

Neurological

Cardiology admission at 24 h:

1 pancreatic carcinoma with liver metastases secondary to liver transplantation for HCV cirrhosis

2 patients with suspected seizures

 

1 patient with a real seizure few months after the TIA

Orthostatic syncope later admitted in Cardiology

1 carcinoma i.s. of vocal cord

1 patient with falls (parkinsonism)

Recurrent syncope (subcutaneous Holter)

2 colon carcinomas

1 optic neuropathy (fistula)

Angina consultation: 2 patients

1 pelvic cystic tumour

1 head trauma in an anticoagulated patient without incidences

Heart failure: 7 patients with income, some multiple

1 Non-Hodgkin’s mantle-cell lymphoma in amygdala

1 ventriculoperitoneal shunt for hydrocephalus

Prosthetic valves: 2 patients

1 prostate carcinoma

1 Wernicke encephalopathy

Anaemia and heart failure: 1 patient; discontinued anticoagulants

1 lung cancer

10 patients (6.2%) with a diagnosis of cognitive impairment during follow-up, mean age 81.1 years

 

1 pulmonary nodule study