Intracranial Atherosclerosis

by Kim, Jong S.; Caplan, Louis R.; Wong, K. S. Lawrence

• ISBN13: 9781405178228
• ISBN10: 1405178221
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-17
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Intracranial atherosclerosis is the dominant cause of stroke in over 70% of the world's population. Globalization is leading to an increasingly heterogeneous society everywhere. Advances in imaging techinology allow this previously inaccessible pathology to be clinically studied.Edited by internationally renowned clinicians, Intracranial Atherosclerosis is the first book to examine intracranial causes of stroke. Clinical practice is allied with basic science to guide all those with an interest in stroke on the diagnosis and management of intracranial atherosclerosis.

Author Biography

Jong S. Kim, MD, PhD, Professor of neurology, University of Ulsan and Asan Medical Center, Seoul

Louis R. Caplan, MD, Professor of Neurology, Harvard University and works in the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.

Lawrence K. Wong, MD, Professor of Neurology,China University of Hong Kong.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Foreward	p. xiii
Epidemiology and risk factors
Anatomy of intracranial arteries	p. 3
Pathologic characteristics	p. 19
Epidemiology	p. 33
Risk factors	p. 45
Stroke mechanism and clinical consequence
Stroke mechanisms	p. 57
Anterior circulation disorders	p. 69
Posterior circulation disorders	p. 83
Cognitive dysfunction, dementia and emotional disturbances	p. 100
Natural course and prognosis	p. 113
Diagnostic imaging studies
Vascular imaging	p. 127
Application of magnetic resonance imaging	p. 135
Transcranial doppler	p. 147
Treatment
Antiplatelet therapy	p. 163
Anticoagulation	p. 173
Angioplasty and stenting	p. 181
Surgical therapy	p. 194
Other miscellaneous treatments	p. 206
Uncommon causes of intracranial arterial disease
Immunologic and vasoconstrictive disorders	p. 217
Arterial dissection, CNS infection and other miscellaneous diseases	p. 229
Moyamoya disease	p. 246
Index	p. 259
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