Caplan's Stroke
A Clinical Approach
- 3rd Edition - April 24, 2000
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Author: Louis Caplan
- Language: English
This new edition maintains the flavor and purpose of the previous editions, presenting up-to-date and contemporary clinical information with the benefit of personal experience and… Read more
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This new edition maintains the flavor and purpose of the previous editions, presenting up-to-date and contemporary clinical information with the benefit of personal experience and patient cases.
* Provides valuable clinical advice and useful solutions for managing stoke victims
* Includes new material on prevention, complications, and rehabilitation and expanded material on nonatherosclerotic ischemia
* Contains Dr. Caplan's incomparable clinical pearls
* Includes new material on prevention, complications, and rehabilitation and expanded material on nonatherosclerotic ischemia
* Contains Dr. Caplan's incomparable clinical pearls
Neurologists, Internists and other PCPs, Neurosurgeons, Physiatrists, Ophthalmologists
PART I: GENERAL PRINCIPLES: Introduction and perspective; Basic pathology, anatomy, and pathophysiology of stroke; Diagnosis and the clinical encounter; Laboratory diagnosis; Treatment; PART II: STROKE SYNDROMES: Large artery occlusive disease of the anterior circulation; Large-vessel occulsive disease of the posterior circulation; Penetrating and branch artery disease; Nonartherosclerotic ischemia; Brain embolism; Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Intracerebral hemorrhage; Stroke in children and young adults; Spinal cord strokes; Strokes; Cerebrovascular disease and surgery; PART III: PREVENTION, COMPLICATIONS AND REHABILITATION: Stroke prevention and risk factors; Complications in stroke patients; Rehabilitation
- Edition: 3
- Published: April 24, 2000
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Language: English
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Louis Caplan
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Senior Neurologist, Director of Stroke Service, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA