Handbook of stroke

Wiebers, David O.

Handbook of stroke [electronic resource] / David O. Wiebers, Valery L. Feigin, Robert D. Brown Jr. ; foreword by Jack P. Whisnant. - 2nd ed. - Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2006. - xiii, 480 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Systematic clinical assessment -- Historical evaluation of key signs and symptoms -- General medical review -- General examination -- Neurologic examination -- Approach to the comatose patient -- Laboratory evaluation -- Differential diagnosis made easy: general approach -- Temporal profile of ischemic cerebrovascular diseases -- Telephone interview and triage -- Management of acute stroke in critically ill patients -- Transient ischemic attack and minor cerebral infarction: general evaluation and treatment -- Major cerebral infarction: general evaluation and treatment -- Subarachnoid hemorrhage: general evaluation and treatment -- Intracerebral hemorrhage: general evaluation and treatment -- Four major categories of ischemic cerebrovascular disease: identification and -- Treatment -- Five major categories of hemorrhagic disease: treatment of specific underlying -- Mechanisms -- Cerebral venous thrombosis -- Other cerebrovascular syndromes -- Vascular disease of the spinal cord -- Cerebrovascular disease in children and young adults -- Cerebrovascular disease in pregnant patients -- Genetics of cerebrovascular disorders -- Modifiable lifestyle and environmental factors -- Asymptomatic carotid and vertebral stenosis -- Hypertension -- Dyslipidemia -- Other host factors -- Unruptured intracranial aneurysms -- Unruptured intracranial vascular malformations -- Hematologic disease -- Carotid or vertebral artery occlusive disease -- Transient ischemic attack -- Cerebral infarction -- Intracerebral hemorrhage -- Subarachnoid hemorrhage -- Physical therapy -- Speech therapy -- Other chronic complications of stroke -- Family and patient education.


Electronic reproduction.
New York, N.Y. :
Ovid Technologies, Inc.
Available via World Wide Web.

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Cerebrovascular Disorders--diagnosis
Cerebrovascular Disorders--therapy
Cerebrovascular Disorders--complications
Acute Disease--therapy
Cerebrovascular disease--Handbooks, manuals, etc.


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