Strokes afflict thousands of people every year. Yet, for every fatal case, many more victims survive, often going on to live long, productive lives. Of course, none of it is simple-not preventing a "brain attack," nor survival, rehabilitation, or living with cerebrovascular disease. The key is education, for both the moment of crisis and the long term. Navigating the Complexities of Stroke provides a practical guide for the lay public and medical professionals. Dr. Louis R. Caplan, one of the world's leading experts, guides readers through the subject in a straightforward and accessible manner. He examines the anatomy of the brain, explaining the specialized functions of different regions, and describes the flow of blood from the heart. He turns to the mechanics of the stroke itself, clearly discussing the complexities of the two major kinds-the ischemic and hemorrhagic-and the resulting damage. Most helpfully, Caplan offers information and advice that readers will find immediately useful: the medical conditions and other factors that create risk, stroke symptoms, abnormalities that doctors look for, tests available to evaluate strokes, complications and disabilities that can result, and the paths of treatment and rehabilitation. He offers real-life cases of victims and their families that demonstrate successful recovery, but also reveal the sometimes troubling impact of strokes on survivors and their families, who can suffer frustration and demoralization that the medical profession often overlooks in its biological focus. Caplan also examines strokes in children and young adults, who are often neglected in literature that is largely aimed at seniors. Navigating the Complexities of Stroke empowers victims, families, and general medical providers. It puts in readers' hands the knowledge necessary to avoid strokes, address them quickly, and effectively recover, so they won't lose heart when it is needed most.

Navigating the Complexities of Stroke (Brain and Life Books)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Caplan, Louis R.

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Oxford University Press

A major unique feature of strokes is their acuteness with the necessity of rapid decision analysis concerning diagnosis and treatment. The last decade has seen major advances in diagnostic technology available to clinicians and development of a larger therapeutic armamentarium. These rapid changes have made it difficult for non-stroke specialists to keep up. Stroke provides a timely and user-friendly manual, covering common and important topics in the diagnosis and treatment of stroke, which clinicians can utilize when they encounter difficult patients on the ward or in the clinic. The discussions are case-based, concise, and easily-digested, thereby providing the reader with an overview of the approach to the problem in question.

Stroke: A clinical approach

Medical Books

Butterworths

Neurologists learn from their patients, and this selection of 60 stroke cases will inform and challenge clinicians of all career stages. Including both common and unusual cases, the aim is to reinforce diagnostic skills through careful analysis of individual presenting patterns and to guide treatment decisions. Each case consists of a clinical history, examination findings and special investigations, usually involving imaging before a diagnosis is given. There then follows for each case a discussion of the clinical issues raised by the case, in which the main teaching points are emphasized. Selected references, frequently including the first description, are provided at the conclusion of each case. Drawing on the expertise of leading teachers and practitioners, and liberally illustrated, these case studies and the discussions that accompany them are an essential guide to learning the complexity of stroke diagnosis.

Case Studies in Stroke: Common and Uncommon Presentations (Case Studies in Neurology)

Hennerici, Michael G.

Szabo, Kristina

Daffertshofer, Michael

Cambridge University Press

This comprehensive review of vascular disease in the vertebrobasilar circulation is based on Dr. Louis R. Caplan's extensive experience and observation of patients from the New England Medical Center posterior circulation stroke registry. It benefits from an organized, uniform, and coherent analysis of all types of vascular disease involving the posterior circulation, presented by a single author who is one of the world's leading authorities on this topic. This new edition is fully updated throughout, including a review of all the literature published on this topic since the previous edition in 1996. There are major rewrites for the chapters on diagnosis and therapy, inclusion of modern imaging techniques, and extensive illustrations. Essential reading for stroke physicians and neurologists, the book will also be an important source of reference for neurosurgeons, vascular surgeons and endovascular radiologists.

Vertebrobasilar Ischemia and Hemorrhage: Clinical Findings, Diagnosis and Management of Posterior Circulation Disease

Medicine

A revised and updated manual that describes a practical approach to the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of the stroke patient, for general practitioners, internists, and surgeons, as well as students and house officers in training. Part I, on general principles, adds an introductory chapter that emphasizes the importance of stroke, and places the present knowledge and approach into historical perspective. Part II, which covers the various stroke mechanisms, syndromes, and problems, adds new chapters on stroke in children and young adults, spinal-cord strokes, and strokes and cerebrovascular disease in patients who have had surgery or in whom surgery is contemplated or already planned. Part III, on stroke prevention, complications, and rehabilitation, is not the main focus of the volume and has not been greatly modified. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Stroke: A Clinical Approach

Butterworth-Heinemann Medical

Rather than a sudden attack without warning, most strokes result from the accumulation of a lifetime's worth of daily habits that finally add up to a major, life-threatening event. The good news is that researchers have learned a great deal about the causes of stroke, & there's a lot we can do to change our lifestyles to prevent a first, or second, stroke. In clear, accessible language, it discusses the causes of stroke, those at risk, the warning signs, & how stroke is diagnosed. Offers practical guidance on coping with life after stroke, in both the short & long term, & reviews medical treatments & rehab. techniques that can help stroke survivors get a fresh start. Illustrated.

Family Guide to Stroke, Treatment, Recovery, and Prevention

Dyken, Mark L.

Easton, J. Donald, M.D.

Diane Pub Co.

If you or someone you know has had a stroke, you need information. The American Heart Association Family Guide to Stroke will give you the facts you need to make the most informed health-care choices. It will also give you the confidence and reassurance that there is a lot you can do to recover from this devastating event. The American Heart Association Family Guide to Stroke explains all the exciting new developments in treatment, recovery, and prevention. In clear, accessible language, it discusses the causes of stroke, those at risk, the warning signs, and how stroke is diagnosed. It offers practical guidance on coping with life after stroke, in both the short and the long term, and reviews the most up-to-date medical treatments and rehabilitation techniques that can help stroke survivors get a fresh start. This reassuring sourcebook will help you: -- Spot the five warning signs of a stroke -- and get immediate medical aid to improve the chances of a full recovery -- Find out whether you're at risk for a stroke and change your lifestyle to help prevent a first or second stroke -- Receive the most effective and up-to-date treatment available, including medications, surgery, and psychological counseling -- Get the most out of rehabilitation in the hospital and at home -- Involve the whole family in coping with the physical and psychological issues of recovery -- Tap into a support network of resources for stroke survivors and their families.

American Heart Association Family Guide to Stroke Treatment, Recovery, and Prevention

Parenting & Relationships

Times Books

Addresses problems and opportunities associated with the tremendous recent progress in liver disease and transplantation!This extremely practical reference covers the natural history, diagnosis, and treatments of all major categories of liver ailments-viral hepatitis, drug-and alcohol-induced disease, steatosis, hemochromatosis, biliary disease, and autoimmune liver disease-synthesizing recent findings with classical treatments and therapies.Provides up-to-date information for primary care and intensive care physicians faced with daily management of serious complications of liver diseases in various clinical environments!Written by over 80 international hepatologists and gastroenterologists, Medical Management of Liver Diseasecovers Wilson's disease, granulomatous hepatitis, parasitic diseases, cryoglobulinemia, AIDS, and other less common disorders discusses liver-specific cancers such as hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma analyzes relationships among hepatitis viruses, including coinfection with hepatitis B and D delineates serological and virological assays for acute and chronic hepatitis examines treatments and vaccines for hepatitis A and B reviews recently emerged hepatotropic viruses explores HIV and other infectious diseases deals extensively with management of complications, including bleeding, ascites, encephalopathy, lung and heart problems, and coagulation disorders and more!Containing over 700 references and over 250 helpful drawings, photographs, and tables, Medical Management of Liver Disease is indispensable for gastroenterologists, hepatologists, family physicians, internists, intensivists, hospitalists, pathologists, and graduate and medical school students in these disciplines.

Medical Management of Liver Disease (Clinical Guides to Medical Management)

Chimowitz, Marc I.

Hurst, J.Willis

CRC-Press

This valuable reference provides a wide range of practical, clinical information for physicians who care for patients with neurological and cardiac problems. Clinical Neurocardiologyconsiders neurological complications arising from cardiac surgery and other cardiac interventions describes neurological findings in heart disease patients, including brain embolism, encephalopathies, and the effects of commonly prescribed drugs discusses the prognosis, diagnosis, and treatment of cardiac arrest details the management of coexistent coronary and cerebrovascular disease reviews the effects of various toxic and metabolic disorders causing neurologic symptoms in cardiac disease patients analyzes cardiac lesions as well as cardiac and neurological findings in patients with various diseases that effect the nervous system and heart and more! With over 1700 references, tables, drawings, photographs, and micrographs, Clinical Neurocardiology benefits cardiologists; neurologists; cardiac, cardiovascular, and vascular surgeons; neurosurgeons; internists; family and primary care physicians; physiologists; neuroscientists; and graduate and medical school students in these disciplines.

Clinical Neurocardiology: Fundamentals and Clinical Cardiology (Fundamental and Clinical Cardiology)

The Effective Clinical Neurologist

Administration & Medicine Economics

Blackwell Science Inc.

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