Stroke presents a unique approach to stroke, both from the uniformity and clarity of the style and the integrated clinical management that weaves together causation, presentation, diagnosis, management and rehabilitation.

Stroke has been extensively revised and expanded to present an authoritative reference for all professionals involved in stroke care.

Stroke features:

• increased coverage of the statins due to clearer evidence of their effectiveness in preventing stroke
• important new evidence on the preventive effect of lowering blood pressure
• a completely revised section on imaging, to reflect the great advances in this area
• coverage of new advances in interventional radiology

Contents

1. Development of knowledge about cerebrovascular disease
2. Is it a vascular event and where is the lesion?
3. Which arterial territory is involved?
4. What pathological type of stroke is it, cerebral ischaemic or haemorrhage?
5. What caused this transient or persisting ischaemic event?
6. Unusual causes of ischaemic stroke and transient ischaemic attack
7. What caused this intracerebral haemorrhage?
8. What caused this subarachnoid haemorrhage?
9. A practical approach to the management of stroke and transient ischaemic attack patients
10. What are this person’s problems? A problem-based approach to the general management of stroke
11. Specific treatments for acute ischaemic stroke
12. Specific treatment of intracerebral haemorrhage
13. Specific treatment of aneurismal subarachnoid haemorrhage
14. Specific interventions to prevent intracranial haemorrhage
15. Preventing recurrent stroke and other serious vascular events
16. The organization of stroke services
17. Reducing the impact of stroke and improving the public health

Index

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