Stroke Prevention in Clinical Practice

This book provides a short clear text to explain how to accurately diagnose a TIA, determine what investigations are indicated and how and when to intervene to reduce the risk of stroke. Short chapters are written in point form with clear diagrams and figures.

Stroke is a brain attack and a major cause of disability and the third biggest killer. Active intervention can prevent stroke especially in high risk groups. Patients who have transient ischaemic attacks (TIAs) are at an increased risk of stroke and should be targeted. Primary care physicians are the first to diagnose the TIA, and are therefore vital in helping reach these people; they are the doctors who can undertake a considerable amount of stroke prevention treatment.

Stroke Prevention in Clinical Practice fills the need for a short clear text to explain how to accurately diagnosis a TIA, determine what investigations are indicated and how and when to intervene to reduce the risk of stroke.

Short chapters written in point form with clear diagrams and figures, each chapter written by an expert in the field.

Short clear text for the busy primary care physician explaining how to accurately diagnose a TIA

Inhalt
The Significance Of Stroke.- Identifying Patients at Risk of Ischemic Stroke.- Investigating Patients at Risk of Stroke.- Reducing the Risk of Stroke by Reducing Embolic Events.- Antiplatelet Therapy.- Reducing Cardioembolic Events.- Reducing Cervical Vessel Embolic Events.- Reducing the Risk of Stroke by Modifying Atherosclerotic Risk Factors.- Managing Hypertension.- Managing Diabetes.- Managing Hyperlipidemia.- Reducing the Risk of Stroke by Modifying Life Style.- Identifying Other Atherosclerotic Diseases.- Managing Lacunar Infarcts.- Reducing the Risk of Stroke by Reducing Procoagulant (Thrombotic) Risk Factors.- Managing Procoagulant Thrombotic States.- Reducing the Risk of Stroke from Other Causes.- Managing Central Nervous System Vasculitis.- Managing Stroke in Human Immunodeficiency VirusInfected Patients.- Thyroid Diseases and Stroke.- Prevention of Other Cardiovascular Events in Cerebrovascular Patients.- Management of Silent Myocardial Ischemia in Stroke Patients.