Brain Ischemia (eBook, PDF)

Basic Concepts and Clinical Relevance
Redaktion: Caplan, Louis R.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Brain Ischemia: Basic Concepts and Clinical Relevance presents a well-planned, integrated, and cohesive approach which is often absent from other multi-authored compendia. It is an invaluable overview of current thought in this very exciting and pivotal time in the history of the care of stroke patients and stroke research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer London
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447120735
• Artikelnr.: 44175974

Autorenporträt

Brain Ischemia: Basic Concepts and Clinical Relevance presents a well-planned, integrated, and cohesive approach which is often absent from other multi-authored compendia. It is an invaluable overview of current thought in this very exciting and pivotal time in the history of the care of stroke patients and stroke research.

Inhaltsangabe

Section I: The Brain.- Prefatory Comments.- 1. Mechanisms of Cell Death in Ischemia.- 2. Positron Emission Tomography (PET) in Acute Ischemic Stroke: Pathophysical and Clinical Implications.- 3. Excitotoxicity and Stroke.- 4. Growth Factors in Stroke.- 5. Ischemic Cerebral Edema.- Concluding Comments.- Section II: The Eye.- Prefatory Comments.- 6. Ocular Ischemia.- Concluding Comments.- Section III. The Blood.- Prefatory Comments.- 7. Coagulation.- 8. Immunohematologic Mechanisms in Stroke.- 9. Fibrinolysis and its Relevance to Acute Focal Cerebral Ischemia.- Concluding Comments.- Section IV: The Blood Vessels.- Prefatory Comments.- 10. Atherosclerosis.- 11. Cerebral Vasoconstriction: Physiology, Pathophysiology and Occurrence in Selected Cerebrovascular Disorders.- 12. Endothelial Cells and Cerebrovascular Disease.- 13. Physical Factors in the Pathogenesis of Atheroma Formation.- 14. Microvascular Pathology.- Concluding Comments.- Section V: Blood Flow, Blood Pressure and Intracranial Pressure.- Prefatory Comments.- 15. Autoregulation, Hypertension and Regulation of the Cerebral Circulation.- 16. The Innervation of Pial Blood Vessels and their Role in Cerebrovascular Regulation.- 17. Rheology of Flow and its Effects.- 18. Pathophysiology of Raised Intracranial Pressure.- 19. Central Neurogenic Regulation of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow (rCBF) and Relationship to Neuroprotection.- Concluding Comments.- Section VI: The Heart.- Prefatory Comments.- 20. Cardiac Disease and Embolic Sources.- 21. Heart and Brain Relationships.- Concluding Comments.- Section VII: Clinical Research: Epidemiology, Statistics, Databases and Trials.- Prefatory Comments.- 22. Epidemiology and Trials.- 23. Stroke Databanks and Stroke Registries.- Concluding Comments.