About the book
Written by leaders in the field of stroke medicine, Handbook of Stroke, Third Edition, is a concise, one-stop guide covering all aspects of clinical management of patients with cerebrovascular disorders. This user-friendly handbook brings you up to date with the most recent advances and knowledge in the field, providing practice-oriented overviews and recommendations that save lives and reduce impairment of function.
- Covers everything from clinical and laboratory assessment, differential diagnosis, and initial management to medical and surgical treatment, prognosis, rehabilitation, and stroke prevention.
- Includes new chapters on the global burden of stroke and restorative therapies following stroke.
- Provides expert state of the art guidance on acute stroke treatment, cerebrovascular disease genetics, primary stroke prevention, management of unruptured intracranial aneurysms, and more.
- Guides your decision making with clear presentations of the thought processes that experienced neurovascular clinicians typically use.
- Including what can be learned from the history, clinical management algorithms, when patients with stroke should be hospitalized vs. evaluated as outpatients , and more.
Author
David O. Wiebers
Valery L. Feigin
Robert D. Brown Jr., MD
Consultant, Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation; Assistant Professor of Neurology, Mayo Medical School, Rochester, MN