Cerebrovascular Ultrasound in Stroke Prevention and Treatment

Edited by Andrei V Alexandrov, MD, University of Alabama Hospital, Birmingham, AL, USA

List of Contributors. Preface. Foreword. Preface to the First Edition. Foreword to the First Edition. Acknowledgment (First Edition). Practice of Ultrasound: an Introduction. Part I How to Perform Ultrasound Tests. 1 Principles of Extracranial Ultrasound Examination (Andrei V. Alexandrov, Alice Robinson-Vaughn, Clotilde Balucani & Marsha M. Neumyer). 2 Intracranial Cerebrovascular Ultrasound Examination Techniques Andrei V. Alexandrov, Marta Rubiera, Paola Palazzo & Marsha M. Neumyer). 3 Anatomy of the Brain s Arterial Supply (Joel Cure). Part II Hemodynamic Principles. 4 Integrated Assessment of Systemic and Intracranial Hemodynamics (Anne W. Alexandrov). 5 Practical Models of Cerebral Hemodynamics and Waveform Recognition (Andrei V. Alexandrov). Part III Criteria for Interpretation. 6 Diagnostic Criteria for Cerebrovascular Ultrasound (Georgios Tsivgoulis, Marsha M. Neumyer & Andrei V. Alexandrov). Part IV Ultrasound in Stroke Prevention and Treatment. 7 Ultrasound in Stroke Prevention: TCD and Sickle Cell Disease (Fenwick T. Nichols III, Robert J Adams & Anne M. Jones). 8 Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Carotid Ultrasound (Tatjana Rundek & Joseph F. Polak). 9 Applications of Functional Transcranial Doppler (fTCD) (Konstantinos Vadikolias & Georgios Tsivgoulis). 10 Transcranial Doppler in the Detection and Quantitation of Patent Foramen Ovale and Other Right-to-Left Circulatory Shunts (Annabelle Lao, Cindy J. Fuller & Jill T. Jesurum). 11 Ultrasound in Neurocritical Care (Andrew D. Barreto & James C. Grotta). 12 Cerebral Vasospasm after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (Mark R. Harrigan, David W. Newell & Andrei V. Alexandrov). 13 Intra-Operative TCD Monitoring (Zsolt Garami & Alan B. Lumsden). 14 Intracranial Stenosis (Vijay K. Sharma & K.S. Lawrence Wong). 15 Ultrasound in Acute Stroke: Diagnosis, Reversed Robin Hood Syndrome and Sonothrombolysis (Andrei V. Alexandrov, Robert Mikulik & Andrew Demchuk). 16 Ultrasound and Gaseous Microspheres (Flemming Forsberg & Andrei V. Alexandrov). 17 Neurosonology Pearls (Georgios Tsivgoulis, Clotilde Balucani & Vijay K Sharma). Index.