External validation of ABCD series scores for predicting early stroke events following transient ischemic attack in a large nationwide registry.
Jia-Xu WengHong-Qiu GuShang WangKai-Xuan YangXin YangChun-Juan WangXia MengXing-Quan ZhaoYong-Jun WangZi-Xiao LiPublished in: European stroke journal (2022)
The traditional scales utilizing medical history (ABCD, ABCD2, and ABCD3 scores) show fair ability for predicting in-hospital stroke events after TIA, but the ABCD2-I score, which adds infarction on DWI, improves the predictive ability.