Stroke: A practical guide to management, 2nd Edition

by Charles P. Warlow (Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK); Martin S. Dennis (Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK); Jan van Gijn (University Medical Center, Utrecht); Graeme J. Hankey (Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, WA, Australia); Peter A. G. San

• ISBN13: 9780632054183
• ISBN10: 0632054182
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

In the second edition of this successful book, the authors have again worked closely together as a team to produce a seamless and consistently styled account of the diagnosis and management of stroke. What is different about this book? As many of the excellent reviews of the first edition point out, it presents a unique approach to stroke, both from the uniformity and clarity of the style (achievable only by a team working very closely together) and the integrated clinical management that weaves together causation, presentation, diagnosis, management and rehabilitation. This book deliberately poses and answers many of the burning questions and controversies in stroke and achieves a rare combination of readability and broad coverage.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vi
Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Abbreviations	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Development of knowledge concerning cerebrovascular disease	p. 4
Is it a vascular event and where is the lesion? Identifying and interpreting the symptoms and signs of cerebrovascular disease	p. 28
Which arterial territory is involved? Developing a clinically-based method of subclassification	p. 106
What pathological type of stroke is it?	p. 151
What caused this transient or persisting ischaemic event?	p. 223
Unusual causes of ischaemic stroke and transient ischaemic attack	p. 301
What caused this intracerebral haemorrhage?	p. 339
What caused this subarachnoid haemorrhage?	p. 376
A practical approach to the management of stroke patients	p. 414
Specific treatment of acute ischaemic stroke	p. 442
Specific treatment of primary intracerebral haemorrhage	p. 509
Specific treatment of aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage	p. 518
Specific treatment of intracranial vascular malformations	p. 560
What are this person's problems? A problem-based approach to the general management of stroke	p. 572
Preventing recurrent stroke and other serious vascular events	p. 653
The organization of stroke services	p. 723
Reducing the burden of stroke and improving the public health	p. 762
Index	p. 785
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