Precision Medicine in Stroke (eBook)

This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the state of the art in precision medicine in stroke. It starts by explaining and giving general information about precision medicine. Current applications in different strokes types (ischemic, haemorrhagic) are presented from diagnosis to treatment. In addition, ongoing research in the field (early stroke diagnosis and estimation of prognosis) is extensively discussed. The final part provides an in-depth discussion of how different interdisciplinary areas like artificial intelligence, molecular biology and genetics are contributing to this area.

Ana Catarina Fonseca has a PhD in Medicine, from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon (2014), within the medical specialty of neurology. In 2014 she completed a Masters in Public Health from Harvard University (USA), having previously completed two masters: in Stroke Medicine at the University Danube Krems (Austria) and in Neuroscience at the University of Lisbon. She is a researcher at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, teaches Pharmacology and Neurology at the Faculty of Medicine - University of Lisbon and practices medicine at the Hospital de Santa Maria in Lisbon. Her main research interests are cryptogenic stroke, heart-brain interactions and biomarkers. She is currently working in a research project in precision medicine in stroke entitled PRECISE-STROKE with the collaboration of informatics engineers, physicians and basic scientists.