Stroke: Practical Management

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  • Completely updated edition, written by a close-knit author team
  • Presents a unique approach to stroke - integrated clinical management that weaves together causation, presentation, diagnosis, management and rehabilitation
  • Includes increased coverage of the statins due to clearer evidence of their effectiveness in preventing stroke
  • Features important new evidence on the preventive effect of lowering blood pressure
  • Contains a completely revised section on imaging
  • Covers new advances in interventional radiology
 

Contents

Contributors
Is it a vascular event and where is the lesion?
Which arterial territory is involved?
What pathological typeof stroke is it cerebral
What
ischaemic
Unusual causesof ischaemic strokeand transient ischaemic attack
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About the author (2011)

Charles Warlow University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK

Jan Van Gijn Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

Martin Dennis University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK

Joanna Wardlaw University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK

John Bamford St James' University Hospital, Leeds, W Yorks, UK

Graeme Hankey Royal Perth Hospital, Stroke Unit, Perth WA, Australia

Peter Sandercock University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK

Gabriel Rinkel Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht, afd. Neurologie, Heidelberglaan , Utrecht

Peter Langhorne Academic Section of Geriatric Medicine, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK

Cathie Sudlow University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK

Peter Rothwell Department of Clinical Neurology, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK

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