The approach throughout the book is that clinical management should be based on evidence wherever possible. 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.
The third edition has been extensively revised and expanded to present an authoritative reference for all professionals involved in stroke care. New features to the third edition include:
- increased coverage of the statins due to clearer evidence of their effectiveness in preventing stroke;
- important new evidence on the preventive effect of lowering blood pressure ;
- a completely revised section on imaging, to reflect the great advances in this area;
- coverage of new advances in interventional radiology.
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1
Introduction 1
2
Development of knowledge about cerebrovascular disease 7
3
Is it a vascular event and where is the lesion? 35
4
Which arterial territory is involved? 131
5
What pathological type of stroke is it, cerebral ischaemic or haemorrhage? 181
6
What caused this transient or persisting ischaemic event? 259
7
Unusual causes of ischaemic stroke and transient ischaemic attack 259
8
What caused this intracerebral haemorrhage? 411
9
What caused this subarachnoid haemorrhage? 457
10
A practical approach to the management of stroke and transient ischaemic
attack
patients 503
11
What are this person's problems? A problem-based approach to the general
management
of stroke 537
12
Specific treatments for acute ischaemic stroke 635
13
Specific treatment of intracerebral haemorrhage 703
14
Specific treatment of aneurismal subarachnoid haemorrhage 719
15
Specific interventions to prevent intracranial haemorrhage 767
16
Preventing recurrent stroke and other serious vascular events 789
17
The organization of stroke services 903
18
Reducing the impact of stroke and improving the public health 953
Index 980