Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Damage
Chapter 1 Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Damage Alejandro A. Rabinstein, Steven J. Resnick The brain is our most essential organ but also the most sensitive to oxygen deprivation. Diffuse hypoxia and ischemia…
Uncommon Causes of Stroke
Chapter 8 Uncommon Causes of Stroke Alejandro A. Rabinstein, Steven J. Resnick Imaging can be invaluable when evaluating patients with stroke of unknown cause. Sometimes it provides the diagnosis, and…
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Chapter 12 Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Alejandro A. Rabinstein, Steven J. Resnick Advances in imaging technology have marked the great milestones in the history of the diagnosis and management of aneurysmal subarachnoid…
Cardiac Embolism
Chapter 4 Cardiac Embolism Alejandro A. Rabinstein, Steven J. Resnick Cardiac embolism represents one of the most common mechanisms of ischemic stroke. It is most common in the elderly as…
Cerebral Venous Thrombosis
Chapter 14 Cerebral Venous Thrombosis Alexander Y. Zubkov, Steven J. Resnick, Alejandro A. Rabinstein Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) was first described by Ribes in the early 19th century on the…
Small Vessel Disease
Chapter 7 Small Vessel Disease Alejandro A. Rabinstein, Steven J. Resnick Small vessel disease is the less understood of the major mechanisms of cerebral ischemia. This is the case despite…
Extracranial Large Artery Atherothrombosis
Chapter 5 Extracranial Large Artery Atherothrombosis Sebastian Koch Extracranial atherothrombotic disease is an important cause of stroke, and the management of asymptomatic occlusive disease poses additional challenges and opportunities for…
Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease
Chapter 6 Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease Jose G. Romano Narrowing of the large intracranial arteries is a surprisingly common cause of stroke in non-Caucasian populations, and one often overlooked in the…
Spinal Cord Infarction
Chapter 9 Spinal Cord Infarction Alejandro A. Rabinstein, Steven J. Resnick Spinal cord infarction remains the less well-studied form of acute ischemic stroke. Although several useful studies describing the clinical…
