Stroke: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management

Abstract

At a time of striking advances in physiological understanding, increased diagnostic accuracy, and effective therapies for both prevention of stroke and reduction of brain damage after stroke, there is increased need for a textbook that deals with this entity. In the past, the major issues addressed in textbooks concerned how to identify the location of a lesion within the brain and how to differentiate occlusion and hemorrhage. The body of knowledge moved at a glacial pace. The fact that there is a need for this, the second edi