Practical Guide to Neurovascular Emergencies

• Main Authors: Saliou, Guillaume (Author), Theaudin, Marie (Author), Join-Lambert Vincent, Claire (Author), Souillard-Scemama, Raphaelle (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Paris : Springer Paris : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Emergency medicine.; Radiology.; Neuroradiology.; Critical care medicine.; Cardiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Imaging / Radiology.; Emergency Medicine.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.

Modern vascular neurology, particularly in the emergency setting, often requires a great capacity for analysis and synthesis. Physicians who manage these patients must have acquired multidisciplinary skills, including a good knowledge of clinical neurology and medical imaging, but they may also need...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
• Arterial stroke overview
• Territorial brain infarction
• Watershed infarction
• Transient ischemic attack
• Lacunar infarction and small arteries diseases
• Rare cerebral vasculopathy
• Hemopathy
• Cerebral hemorrhage
• Cerebral venous thrombosis
• Medullary infarction
• Imaging differential diagnosis in stroke
• Incidentalomas
• Thrombolysis.