Warlow's Stroke (eBook)

The Editors Graeme J. Hankey MBBS, MD, FRACP, FRCPE, FAHA, FESO, FAAHMS, Professor of Neurology, Medical School, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; and Consultant Neurologist, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Western Australia. Malcolm Macleod BSc(Hons), MBChB, PhD, FRCP, Professor of Neurology and Translational Neurosciences at the University of Edinburgh, and Honorary Consultant Neurologist and Head of Neurology, NHS Forth Valley, UK. Philip B. Gorelick MD, MPH, FACP, FAHA, FAAN, FANA, Professor Translational Science and Molecular Medicine at Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA; and Adjunct Professor, Davee Department of Neurology, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA; and International Fellow, Population Health Research Institute affiliated with McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada; and Professor Emeritus, Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA. Christopher Chen BA, BMBCh, FRCP, Director, Memory Aging & Cognition Centre, National University Health System, Singapore; and Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, National University of Singapore, Singapore; and Senior Consultant Neurologist, Department of Psychological Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore. Fan Z. Caprio MD, Department of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA. Heinrich Mattle MD, FRCPE, FAHA, FESO, Professor, Senior Consultant, Department of Neurology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

Contributors vii

Acknowledgments xi

Abbreviations xiii

1 Introduction 1

2 Development of knowledge about cerebrovascular disease 7
Jan van Gijn

3 Is it a vascular event and where is the lesion? 37
Simon Jung and Heinrich P. Mattle

4 Which arterial territory is involved? 129
John C.M. Brust

5 What is the role of imaging in acute stroke? 171

5A Neuroimaging 172
Marwan El-Koussy

5B Ultrasound of the extra- and intracranial arteries 224
Georgios Tsivgoulis and Apostolos Safouris

5C Cardioembolic stroke 241
Issam Mikati and Zeina Ibrahim

6 What caused this transient or persisting ischemic event? 267
Fernando D. Testai

7 Unusual causes of ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack 345
Fan Z. Caprio and Chen Lin

8 What caused this intracerebral hemorrhage? 399
Farid Radmanesh and Jonathan Rosand

9 What caused this subarachnoid hemorrhage? 437
Matthew B. Maas and Andrew M. Naidech

10 A practical approach to the management of stroke and transient ischemic attack 455
H. Bart van der Worp and Martin Dennis

11 What are this patient's problems? A problem-based approach to the general management of stroke 481
Yannie Soo, Howan Leung, and Lawrence Ka Sing Wong

12 Have the patient's cognitive abilities been affected? 579
Leonardo Pantoni

13 Specific treatment of acute ischemic stroke 587
Eivind Berge and Peter Sandercock

14 Specific treatment of intracerebral hemorrhage 657
Shoichiro Sato and Craig S. Anderson

15 Specific treatment of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage 679
Gregory Arnone and Sepideh Amin-Hanjani

16 Specific interventions to prevent intracranial hemorrhage 723
Preston W. Douglas, Clio A. Rubinos, and Sean Ruland

17 Preventing recurrent stroke and other serious vascular events 745
Cathra Halabi, Rene Colorado, and Karl Meisel

18 Rehabilitation after stroke: evidence, practice, and new directions 867
Coralie English, Audrey Bowen, Debbie Hébert, and Julie Bernhardt

19 The organization of stroke services 879
Peter Langhorne, Jeyaraj Durai Pandian, and Cynthia Felix

20 Reducing the impact of stroke and improving public health 933
Graeme J. Hankey and Philip B. Gorelick

Index 953