CAPLAN'S STROKE. A CLINICAL APPROACH

Description

Thisupdated, revised and expanded fifth edition of the market-leading clinicalguide on stroke covers causes, prevention, clinical features, evaluation andmanagement in a comprehensive yet accessible manner. While it retains theuniform organization, accessible style and patient-oriented focus of previouseditions, its scope has been extended to cover the most recent research,providing a fully up-to-date account of the features of cerebrovasculardisease, stroke syndromes, complications, and recovery and rehabilitation. Joinedby an international team of experts in the field, Caplan offers a widenedcoverage of each chapter topic, illustrated by using a large number ofreal-world clinical examples. Not previously included, this new edition nowalso contains a chapter on the genetics of stroke. Generously illustrated byfigures of anatomy and pathology and brain and vascular imaging, this is amust-have for medical specialists and consultants, as well as trainees, inneurology, stroke medicine, internal medicine and neurorehabilitation.

Containsnumerous patient examples to aid in mapping theory to real-life situations

Notpreviously included, this new edition also contains a chapter on the geneticsof stroke

Keyfindings are summarized in tables

Contents

Foreword
List of contributors

Part I. General Principles:
1. Introduction and perspective Louis R. Caplan
2. Pathology, anatomy, and pathophysiology of stroke Louis R.Caplan and David Liebeskind
3. Diagnosis and the clinical encounter Louis R. Caplan and FernandoBaringamentaria
4. Imaging and laboratory diagnosis Louis R. Caplan, BruceCampbell and Steven Davis
5. Genetics of stroke Stéphanie Debette and Louis R.Caplan
6. Treatment Louis R. Caplan and Jeffrey Saver

Part II. Stroke Syndromes:
7. Large artery occlusive disease of the anterior circulation Louis R. Caplanand LawrenceWechsler
8. Large vessel occlusive disease of the posteriorcirculation Louis R. Caplan and Jong S. Kim
9. Penetrating and branch artery disease Louis R.Caplan, Geoffrey Donnan and Marie Dagonnier
10. Brain embolism Louis R. Caplan and Pierre Amarenco
11. Post-cardiac arrest encephalopathy Louis R. Caplanand Michael DeGeorgia
12. Non-atherosclerotic vasculopathies Louis R. Caplanand Jose Biller
13. Subarachnoid hemorrhage, aneurysms and vascularmalformations Tudor Jovin and Louis R. Caplan
14. Intracerebral hemorrhage Louis R. Caplan and Carlos Kase
15. Stroke in children and young adults Gabrielle DeVeber,Aneesh Singhal and Louis R. Caplan
16. Spinal cord vascular disease Louis R. Caplan andAyrton Massaro
17. Cerebral venous thrombosis Louis R. Caplan andMarie-Germaine Bousser

Part III. Prevention, Complications, and Recovery-Rehabilitation:
18. Stroke prevention Louis R. Caplan and Phillip Gorelick
19. Complications in stroke patients Louis R. Caplanand Sandeep Kumar
20. Recovery, rehabilitation, and repair Steven Cramerand Louis R. Caplan

Index.

Author

LouisR. Caplan, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,Boston, Massachusetts
Louis R. Caplan is a Senior Neurologist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centerand Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts.