Completely updated edition, written by a close-knit author team Presents a unique approach to stroke - integrated clinical management that weaves together causation, presentation, diagnosis, management and rehabilitation Includes increased coverage of the statins due to clearer evidence of their effectiveness in preventing stroke Features important new evidence on the preventive effect of lowering blood pressure Contains a completely revised section on imaging Covers new advances in interventional radiology Cover......Page 1 Stroke: Practical Management, Third Edition......Page 2 Dedication......Page 3 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Contributors......Page 7 Acknowledgements......Page 8 Abbreviations......Page 9 1 Introduction......Page 12 2 Development of Knowledge About Cerebrovascular Disease......Page 17 3 Is it a Vascular Event and Where is the Lesion?: Identifying and Interpreting the Symptoms and Signs of Cerebrovascular Disease......Page 45 4 Which Arterial Territory is Involved?......Page 141 5 What Pathological Type of Stroke is it, Cerebral Ischaemia or Haemorrhage?......Page 191 6 What Caused This Transient or Persisting Ischaemic Event?......Page 269 7 Unusual Causes of Ischaemic Stroke and Transient Ischaemic Attack......Page 362 8 What Caused This Intracerebral Haemorrhage?......Page 419 9 What Caused This Subarachnoid Haemorrhage?......Page 465 10 A Practical Approach to the Management of Stroke and Transient Ischaemic Attack Patients......Page 511 11 What are This Patient's Problems?: A Problem-Based Approach to the General Management of Stroke......Page 544 12 Specific Treatments for Acute Ischaemic Stroke......Page 641 13 Specific Treatment of Intracerebral Haemorrhage......Page 709 14 Specific Treatment of Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage......Page 724 15 Specific Interventions to Prevent Intracranial Haemorrhage......Page 772 16 Preventing Recurrent Stroke and Other Serious Vascular Events......Page 793 17 The Organization of Stroke Services......Page 906 18 Reducing the Impact of Stroke and Improving the Public Health......Page 956 Index......Page 983 Development of knowledge about cerebrovascular disease Is it a vascular event and where is the lesion? Identifying and interpreting the symptoms and signs of cerebrovascular disease Which arterial territory is involved? Developing a clinically-based method of subclassification What pathological type of stroke is it? What caused this transient or persisting ischaemic event? Unusual causes of ischaemic stroke and transient ischaemic attack What caused this intracerebral haemorrhage? What caused this subarachnoid haemorrhage? A practical approach to the management of stroke patients Specific treatment of acute ischaemic stroke Specific treatment of primary intracerebral haemorrhage Specific treatment of intracerebral haemorrhage Specific treatment of intracranial vascular malformations Specific interventions to prevent intracranial haemorrhage Preventing recurrent stroke and other serious vascular events The organization of stroke services Reducing the burden of stroke and improving the public health.
- Completely updated edition, written by a close-knit author team
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Presents a unique approach to stroke - integrated clinical management that weaves together causation, presentation, diagnosis, management and rehabilitation
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Includes increased coverage of the statins due to clearer evidence of their effectiveness in preventing stroke
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Features important new evidence on the preventive effect of lowering blood pressure
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Contains a completely revised section on imaging
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Covers new advances in interventional radiology
This book provides an essential, evidence-based account of the diagnosis and management of stroke. Written by a close-knit author team in a seamless and consistently styled manner, Stroke presents a unique approach to the topic--integrated clinical management that weaves together causation, presentation, diagnosis, management and rehabilitation. We, the authors of this book, regard ourselves as practising-and practical-doctors who look after stroke patients in very routine day-to-day practice.
