Abstract
The clinical manifestations of ischemia of the brain caused by disease of its supplying arteries are traditionally classified as transient (TIAs) or permanent (stroke) neurologic deficits. Conventionally, a deficit lasting less than 24 hours is called a TIA and one lasting longer than that is called a stroke. For a while it was popular to insert a third category between these two known by its acronym, RIND, a reversible ischemic neurologic deficit. To qualify as a RIND, such a deficit was arbitrarily said to be present for longer than 24 hours but less than 3 weeks. The sequestration of deficits into this third clinical category has no discernible practical use or specific pathologic correlation. Most of the so-called RINDs have been shown by modern imaging techniques to be strokes. Therefore the use of RIND as a category in clinical description is no longer justified.
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Berguer, R., Kieffer, E. (1992). Presentation and Selection of Patients. In: Surgery of the Arteries to the Head. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2880-6_5
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