Stroke

Jonathan A. Edlow (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2008
Greenwood Press (Verlag)
978-0-313-34241-7 (ISBN)

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Covers the common affliction of stroke that comes in many different forms, which can be fatal or leave the patient disabled, and which strikes a surprising number of younger people. This volume includes a glossary of terms and a bibliography of works that discuss the disease.

Diseases have a history, and understanding that history helps us understand how best to treat and control disease today. Today's students are confronted with a panoply of often-frightening illnesses and afflictions - the Biographies of Disease series provides students with the information that they need to understand the origin of various maladies, how they impact contemporary society, and how doctors and researchers from around the world are fighting to devise treatments to alleviate or cure these diseases. This volume, Stroke, covers a common affliction that comes in many different forms, which can be fatal or leave the patient disabled, and which strikes a surprising number of younger people.

Jonathan A. Edlow is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and attending physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He is the author of Bullseye: Unraveling the Medical Mystery of Lyme Disease (2004).

Table of Contents
List of Figures
Series Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction: what is a stroke?
Chapter 2 Pathophysiology and risk factors
Chapter 3 Symptoms of stroke
Chapter 4 Diagnosis of stroke
Chapter 5 General treatment of stroke
Chapter 6 Treatment of ischemic stroke
Chapter 7 Treatment of hemorrhagic stroke
Chapter 8 Long term outcomes
Chapter 9 Primary stroke prevention
Chapter 10 TIA: a golden opportunity
Chapter 11 New horizons in stroke research
Glossary
Timeline
Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.5.2008
Reihe/Serie	Biographies of Disease
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	425 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
ISBN-10	0-313-34241-5 / 0313342415
ISBN-13	978-0-313-34241-7 / 9780313342417
Zustand	Neuware