DESCRIPTION:
Concise and informative, this guide is for doctors preparing to specialise in stroke care and strokologists looking for rapid but in-depth scientific guidance on stroke management. This third edition is fully revised to ensure that medical professionals are completely up-to-date in this fast-moving field. Its practical and problem-based approach covers all important issues of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cerebrovascular diseases, and reviews epidemiology and risk assessment. This new edition features expanded sections on topics of stroke unit management, thrombolysis, neurointerventions, cognitive impairment, secondary prevention and rehabilitation, and includes new chapters on neurointensive care and small vessel disease. Comprehensive in its coverage, the textbook includes acute assessment, imaging and emergency interventions. The authors are renowned experts in their field and have been working together in a teaching faculty for the European Master in Stroke Medicine Programme, which is supported by the European Stroke Organisation and the World Stroke Organisation.

- Concise and practical, this is a crucial guide for all strokologists and doctors training in stroke care
- Fully revised to reflect a fast-moving field, the book is problem-focused and guidance-orientated to ensure high-quality support
- The third edition includes new chapters on neurointensive care and small vessel disease, with expansions sections on stroke unit management, thrombolysis, neurointerventions and the practice of neurorehabilitaton, amongst other topics

CONTENTS:
Part I. Etiology, Pathophysiology, and Imaging:
1. Neuropathology and pathophysiology of stroke
2. Common causes of ischemic stroke
3.1. Neuroradiology - Imaging of acute ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke: CT, perfusion CT, CT angiography
3.2. Neuroradiology - Imaging of acute ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke: MRI and MR angiography
3.3. Neuroradiology - Multimodal imaging-guided acute stroke treatment based on CT and MR imaging
4. Imaging for prediction of functional outcome and for assessment of recovery
5. Ultrasound in acute ischemic stroke
Part II. Clinical Epidemiology and Risk Factors:
6. Basic epidemiology of stroke and risk assessment
7. Common risk factors and prevention
8. Cardiac diseases relevant to stroke
Part III. Diagnostics and Syndromes:
9. Common stroke syndromes
10. Less common stroke syndromes
11. Cerebral Small vessel disease
12. Intracerebral haemorrhage
13. Subarachnoid haemorrhage
14. Cerebral venous thrombosis
15. Behavioral neurology of stroke
16. Stroke and dementia
17. Ischemic stroke in the young and in children
Part IV. Therapeutic Strategies and Neurorehabilitation:
18. Stroke units and clinical assessment
19. Acute therapies for stroke
20. Interventional intravascular therapies for stroke
21. Intensive care of stroke
22. Management of acute ischemic stroke and its late complications
23. Infections in stroke
24. Secondary prevention
25. Neurorehabilitation practice for stroke patients