Research Catalog

Title

Stroke : practical management / C. Warlow [and others].

Publication

Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2008, ©2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Warlow, Charles, 1934-

Description

x, 995 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map; 29 cm

Subjects

• Cerebrovascular disease
• Ischemic Attack, Transient > therapy
• Intracranial Hemorrhages > therapy
• Stroke > therapy
• Cerebrovascular disease > Treatment

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Development of knowledge about cerebrovascular disease -- 3. Is it a vascular event and where is the lesion? -- 4. Which arterial territory is involved? -- 5. What pathological type of stroke is it, cerebral ischaemic or haemorrhage? -- 6. What caused this transient or persisting ischaemic event? -- 7. Unusual causes of ischaemic stroke and transient ischaemic attack -- 8. What caused this intracerebral haemorrhage? -- 9. What caused this subarachnoid haemorrhage? -- 10. A practical approach to the management of stroke and transient ischaemic attack patients -- 11. What are this person's problems? A problem-based approach to the general management of stroke -- 12. Specific treatments for acute ischaemic stroke -- 13. Specific treatment of intracerebral haemorrhage -- 14. Specific treatment of aneurismal subarachnoid haemorrhage -- 15. Specific interventions to prevent intracranial haemorrhage -- 16. Preventing recurrent stroke and other serious vascular events -- 17. The organization of stroke services -- 18. Reducing the impact of stroke and improving the public health.

ISBN

• 9781405127660 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 140512766X (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007022955

OCLC

• ocn140107038
• 140107038
• SCSB-5388545

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries