Handbook of stroke

• Main Authors: Wiebers, David O. (Author), Feigin, Valery L. (Author), Brown, Robert D. 1961- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2006
• Edition: Second Edition
• Subjects: Cerebrovascular Disorders > diagnosis; Cerebrovascular Disorders > therapy; Cerebrovascular Disorders > complications; Acute Disease > therapy
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Thoroughly updated to reflect the best current practices in stroke medicine, Handbook of Stroke, Second Edition is a user-friendly one-stop guide to the clinical management of patients with cerebrovascular disorders-from clinical and laboratory assessment, differential diagnosis, and initial managem...

Table of Contents:

• Systematic clinical assessment
• Historical evaluation of key signs and symptoms
• General medical review
• General examination
• Neurologic examination
• Approach to the comatose patient
• Laboratory evaluation
• Differential diagnosis made easy: general approach
• Temporal profile of ischemic cerebrovascular diseases
• Telephone interview and triage
• Management of acute stroke in critically ill patients
• Transient ischemic attack and minor cerebral infarction: general evaluation and treatment
• Major cerebral infarction: general evaluation and treatment
• Subarachnoid hemorrhage: general evaluation and treatment
• Intracerebral hemorrhage: general evaluation and treatment
• Four major categories of ischemic cerebrovascular disease: identification and
• Treatment
• Five major categories of hemorrhagic disease: treatment of specific underlying
• Mechanisms
• Cerebral venous thrombosis
• Other cerebrovascular syndromes
• Vascular disease of the spinal cord
• Cerebrovascular disease in children and young adults
• Cerebrovascular disease in pregnant patients
• Genetics of cerebrovascular disorders
• Modifiable lifestyle and environmental factors
• Asymptomatic carotid and vertebral stenosis
• Hypertension
• Dyslipidemia
• Other host factors
• Unruptured intracranial aneurysms
• Unruptured intracranial vascular malformations
• Hematologic disease
• Carotid or vertebral artery occlusive disease
• Transient ischemic attack
• Cerebral infarction
• Intracerebral hemorrhage
• Subarachnoid hemorrhage
• Physical therapy
• Speech therapy
• Other chronic complications of stroke
• Family and patient education.