What are the signs and symptoms of a stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack?
Strokes and TIA have many of the same symptoms?severe headache, loss of motor function, memory, or speech capability. Blurred vision, sudden vision changes, or loss of vision and numbness or other loss of sensation in extremities are also symptoms. How is a TIA different from a Stroke? In most ways a TIA is very similar to a stroke, except that the consequences of the event last longer with a stroke, and resolve sooner with a TIA. How is a Patent Foramen Ovale different from an Atrial Septal Defect? These two defects differ in two main ways. First, a PFO is a defect where two separate sections of septal tissue overlap each other, but are not fused. In an ASD, there is a distinct hole in the septal tissue without any overlap of tissue. A good analogy is to think of a PFO as a large doorway with two doors hinged to it with each door being able to close two thirds of the door opening. The doors, when closed, will overlap each other. An ASD is simply the doorway with no doors attached at a
