Textbook of Stroke Medicine
Michael Brainin · Wolf-Dieter Heiss
Nov 2009 · Cambridge University Press
Ebook
337
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About this ebook
This concise and informative textbook is aimed at trainee doctors beginning work on a stroke unit or residents embarking on their postdoctoral training in stroke care. It has a practical approach covering all important issues of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cerebrovascular diseases. Chapters on the basics of neuropathology and pathophysiology are followed by reviews of clinical issues, including neuroimaging, clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment, stroke in the young, and stroke-related dementia. Topics of rising importance are covered in chapters on stroke unit management, monitoring and management of complications including infections, recommendations for thrombolysis, interventions and neurosurgical procedures, and clear and balanced recommendations for secondary prevention. Finally, neuropsychological syndromes are explained and an up-to-date view on neurorehabilitation is presented. The authors are all experts in their field and many of them teach on the European Master's Program on Stroke Medicine, which is supported and endorsed by the European Stroke Organization.
About the author
Michael Brainin is Professor in Clinical Neurology, Director of the Department of Clinical and Preventive Medicine, Chair of the Center of Clinical Neurosciences, Danube University, and Head of the Department of Neurology at the Academic Teaching Hospital Landesklinikum Tulln, Austria.
Wolf-Dieter Heiss is Professor Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research, Cologne, Germany.
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