Noninvasive Radiologic Diagnosis of Extracranial Vascular Pathologies (eBook)

Fridon Todua, MD, PhD, has been the founder and  Scientific  Supervisor of the Institute of Clinical Medicine ,Tbilisi, Georgia since 1991. He has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Chivalrous Order of the Belgian Royal Court (1999), the Albert Schweitzer Medal "For humanism and service to the people" (2003), and the Order of Presidential Excellency (2010). He became  Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences in 1991 and Academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Art, a member of the Russian Academy of Medical and Technical Sciences as well.  Prof. Todua has served as a President of the Georgian Association of Radiology and the Georgian Association of Telemedicine. He was elected as an honorary professor at Graz Medical University in 2010, Baku State University in 2012, and the Georgian David Agmashenebeli University in 2012, etc. He is the author of more 600 scientific publications and  nine monographs.  Dudana Gachechiladze, MD, PhD, is Scientific Supervisor  of the Ultrasound imaging Department of the Institute of Clinical Medicine, Tbilisi, Georgia. She is a Professor of Radiology in the department of Diagnostic Medicine of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University , The  head of  programme  of the Medical education of Caucasus   University. Member of the National  Medical Academy of Georgia. Dr. Gachechiladze is  Vice-Editor of the Georgian Journal of Radiology. She is a member of the European Society of Radiology Education Committee and a number of other associations and societies as well. She is the author of more than 150 scientific publications, including two monographs.  

Introduction

Part I Vascular anatomy and Basic hemodynamics

1.     Anatomy of cerebral circulation system

2.     Basic Principles of hemodynamics

Part II Basic principles of non-invasive vascular diagnostics

3.      Basic principles of  Ultrasound diagnostics

4.      Principles of extracranial arterial and venous ultrasound examination

5.      Principles of Computed Tomography  and Computed  Tomography angiography

6.      Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging  and Magnetic Resonance angiography

7.      CTA and MRA- Postprocessing and Data Analysis

Part III  Cerebral ischemia

8.      Stroke ( Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Risk-factors,  Types,  Imaging)

9.      CT / MRI  perfusion in Acute   stroke

Part IV. Pathologies of extracranial vessels

 

10.  Atherostenosis and thrombosis of extracranial vessels

11.  Common Carotid Artery Intima-media layer changes

12.  Structural characteristics of atherosclerotic plaque

13.  Surgical treatment end endovascular revascularization  of  carotid  stenosis

14.  Deformation of extracranial arteries

15.    Takayasu`s arteritis

16.    Subclavian steal effect

17.    Dissection of extracranial arteries

18.    Aneurism and pseudoaneurism of extracranial arteries

19.  Congenital variations of extracranial arteries

20.  Pathological findings in the jugular veins

Part V Methods of non-invasive functional examination of cerebrovascular system

21.  Detection of cerebral microemboli

22.  Assessment of cerebrovascular reactivity