1. METHOD Patients with stroke or transient ischemic attack are identified prospectively at the time of admission to a participating hospital.

2. ● People who have had a thrombotic stroke (the kind caused by clots) or a transient ischemic attack (a brief strokelike episode).

3. Results: Indications for CEA were asymptomatic carotid stenosis (40.6%), transient ischemic attack (TIA) or amaurosis fugax (AF, 39.9%), acute/progressive stroke (5%), and minor stroke (14.1%).

4. Closure I (Evaluation of the STARFlex Septal Closure System in Patients with a Stroke and/or Transient Ischemic Attack due to Presumed Paradoxical Embolism through a Patent Foramen Ovale) was a

5. Up to one-third of patients admitted to a hospital due to an ischemic stroke or a transient ischemic attack show clinical worsening of symptoms in the first hours to days after admission.

6. The aim of our study is to identify factors of nondirect admission of stroke or transient ischemic attack patients in SU, leading to an initial admission in the ED, which is away from the SU.