This updated, revised and expanded fifth edition of the market-leading clinical guide on stroke covers causes, prevention, clinical features, evaluation and management in a comprehensive yet accessible manner. While it retains the uniform organization, accessible style and patient-oriented focus of previous editions, its scope has been extended to cover the most recent research, providing a fully up-to-date account of the features of cerebrovascular disease, stroke syndromes, complications, and recovery and rehabilitation. Joined by an international team of experts in the field, Caplan offers a widened coverage of each chapter topic, illustrated by using a large number of real-world clinical examples. Not previously included, this new edition now also contains a chapter on the genetics of stroke. Generously illustrated by figures of anatomy and pathology and brain and vascular imaging, this is a must-have for medical specialists and consultants, as well as trainees, in neurology, stroke medicine, internal medicine and neurorehabilitation.
Contains numerous patient examples to aid in mapping theory to real-life situations
Not previously included, this new edition also contains a chapter on the genetics of stroke
Key findings are summarized in tables
Contents
Foreword
List of contributors
Part I. General Principles:
1. Introduction and perspective Louis R. Caplan
2. Pathology, anatomy, and pathophysiology of stroke Louis R. Caplan and David Liebeskind
3. Diagnosis and the clinical encounter Louis R. Caplan and Fernando Baringamentaria
4. Imaging and laboratory diagnosis Louis R. Caplan, Bruce Campbell and Steven Davis
5. Genetics of stroke Stéphanie Debette and Louis R. Caplan
6. Treatment Louis R. Caplan and Jeffrey Saver
Part II. Stroke Syndromes:
7. Large artery occlusive disease of the anterior circulation Louis R. Caplan and Lawrence Wechsler
8. Large vessel occlusive disease of the posterior circulation Louis R. Caplan and Jong S. Kim
9. Penetrating and branch artery disease Louis R. Caplan, Geoffrey Donnan and Marie Dagonnier
10. Brain embolism Louis R. Caplan and Pierre Amarenco
11. Post-cardiac arrest encephalopathy Louis R. Caplan and Michael DeGeorgia
12. Non-atherosclerotic vasculopathies Louis R. Caplan and Jose Biller
13. Subarachnoid hemorrhage, aneurysms and vascular malformations Tudor Jovin and Louis R. Caplan
14. Intracerebral hemorrhage Louis R. Caplan and Carlos Kase
15. Stroke in children and young adults Gabrielle DeVeber, Aneesh Singhal and Louis R. Caplan
16. Spinal cord vascular disease Louis R. Caplan and Ayrton Massaro
17. Cerebral venous thrombosis Louis R. Caplan and Marie-Germaine Bousser
Part III. Prevention, Complications, and Recovery-Rehabilitation:
18. Stroke prevention Louis R. Caplan and Phillip Gorelick
19. Complications in stroke patients Louis R. Caplan and Sandeep Kumar
20. Recovery, rehabilitation, and repair Steven Cramer and Louis R. Caplan
Index.
