Transient Ischemic Attack and Stroke: Diagnosis, Investigation and Treatment Second Edition PDF

Section 1 – Epidemiology, Risk
Factors, Pathophysiology, and
Causes of Transient Ischemic
Attacks and Stroke
1 Epidemiology 1
2 Risk Factors 17
3 Genetics 35
4 Anatomy and Physiology 52
5 Pathophysiology of Acute Cerebral
Ischemia 65
6 Causes of Transient Ischemic Attack
and Ischemic Stroke 71
7 Causes of Spontaneous Intracranial
Hemorrhage 113
Section 2 – Clinical Features,
Diagnosis, and Investigation
8 Clinical Features and Differential
Diagnosis of a Transient Ischemic
Attack 127
9 The Clinical Features and Differential
Diagnosis of Acute Stroke 139
10 Brain Imaging in Transient Ischemic
Attack and Minor Stroke 159
11 Brain Imaging in Major Acute
Stroke 176
12 Vascular Imaging in Transient
Ischemic Attack and Stroke 191
13 Non-Radiological Investigations for
Transient Ischemic Attack and
Stroke 207
Section 3 – Prognosis of
Transient Ischemic Attack and
Stroke
14 Methods of Determining
Prognosis 213
15 Short-Term Prognosis after
Transient Ischemic Attack and Minor
Stroke 231
16 Short-Term Prognosis after Major
Stroke 246
17 Long-Term Prognosis after Transient
Ischemic Attack and Stroke 253
Section 4 – Treatment of
Transient Ischemic Attack and
Stroke
18 Methods of Assessing
Treatments 265
19 Acute Treatment of Transient
Ischemic Attack and Minor
Stroke 282
20 Acute Treatment of Major Stroke:
General Principles 296
21 Specific Treatments for Major Acute
Ischemic Stroke 307
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22 Specific Treatment of Acute
Intracerebral Hemorrhage 328
23 Recovery and Rehabilitation after
Stroke 339
Section 5 – Secondary
Prevention
24 Medical Therapies 357
25 Carotid Endarterectomy 373
26 Carotid Stenting and Other
Interventions 388
27 Selection of Patients for Carotid
Intervention 399
28 Intervention for Asymptomatic
Carotid Stenosis 419
Section 6 – Miscellaneous
Disorders
29 Cerebral Venous Thrombosis 429
30 Spontaneous Subarachnoid
Hemorrhage 438
31 Vascular Cognitive Impairment:
Epidemiology, Definitions,
Stroke-Associated Dementia, and
Delirium 456
32 Vascular Cognitive Impairment:
Investigation and Treatment 475…
Transient Ischemic Attack and Stroke: Diagnosis, Investigation and Treatment Second Edition PDF Ebook

Gary K. K. Lau is a Clinical Research Fellow at the Centre for Prevention of Stroke and Dementia, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford.

Sarah T. Pendlebury is an Associate Professor in Medicine and Old Age Neuroscience at the Centre for Prevention of Stroke and Dementia, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford.

Peter M. Rothwell is an Action Research Professor of Neurology at the University of Oxford, and the Director at the Centre for Prevention of Stroke and Dementia, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford.