Stroke
Subtitle: practical management
By: C. Warlow ... [et al.].
Contributors: Warlow, Charles, 1934-
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Malden, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405127660
Subjects: Cerebrovascular disease; Cerebrovascular disease -- Treatment; Cerebrovascular Accident -- therapy; Intracranial Hemorrhages -- therapy; Ischemic Attack, Transient -- therapy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Development of knowledge about cerebrovascular disease; title: Is it a vascular event and where is the lesion? Identifying and interpreting the symptoms and signs of cerebrovascular disease; title: Which arterial territory is involved? Developing a clinically-based method of subclassification; title: What pathological type of stroke is it?; title: What caused this transient or persisting ischaemic event?; title: Unusual causes of ischaemic stroke and transient ischaemic attack; title: What caused this intracerebral haemorrhage?; title: What caused this subarachnoid haemorrhage?; title: A practical approach to the management of stroke patients; title: Specific treatment of acute ischaemic stroke; title: Specific treatment of primary intracerebral haemorrhage; title: Specific treatment of intracerebral haemorrhage; title: Specific treatment of intracranial vascular malformations; title: Specific interventions to prevent intracranial haemorrhage; title: Preventing recurrent stroke and other serious vascular events; title: The organization of stroke services; title: Reducing the burden of stroke and improving the public health.