Ischemic Stroke: Diagnosis and Treatment (Current Clinical Cardiology)

By: Liliana Cohen and Michael G Fara and Christopher Favilla and Rahul Garg and Toby Ira Gropen and Nneka Ifejika and Koto Ishida and Lester Y Leung and Ava L Liberman and Kira Long and James S. McKinney and Deviyani Mehta and Steven R Messe and Michael T Mullen and Vikas G Patel and Christopher J Renner and Igor Rybinnik and Amardeep Saluja and Albert D Sam and Rajbeer S Sangha and Steven M Schonfeld and Christina Mijalski Sells and James E Siegler and Magdy Selim and Joseph Tarsia and Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez and Linda Wendell and Ashlie White and Frank Wilklow

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Synopsis: Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States and is a leading cause of adult disability and discharge from hospitals to chronic care facilities. Despite the frequency and morbidity of stroke, there is a relative paucity of “stroke experts,” such as vascular neurologists and neurocritical care physicians, to care for these patients. Clinical research in the diagnosis and treatment of stroke has grown exponentially over the past two decades resulting in a great deal of new clinical information for attending physicians to absorb. Grounded in cutting-edge and evidence-based strategies, Ischemic Stroke closes the gap in stroke care by providing a cogent and intuitive guide for all physicians caring for stroke patients. Key topics explored cover all elements of stroke care, including examinations of: emergent evaluation of the suspected stroke patient, clinical signs and symptoms of stroke, mechanisms of ischemic stroke, neuroimaging, cardiac-based evaluation, thrombolytic therapy, endovascular therapy, critical care management, rehabilitation, cardiac arrhythmias, and structural heart disease.