Caplan's Stroke: A Clinical Approach 4th Edition

This is the fourth edition of Caplan’s Stroke: A Clinical Approach. It is the last edition that Louis R. Caplan will write as a single-author monograph. The topic of clinical stroke has become far too vast for one person to provide up-to-date, concise but thorough coverage in a single book format. The stroke literature has expanded exponentially since the first edition appeared in 1984. During the last decade alone, there are more journals, many more reports, more monographs, more meetings, many more physicians caring for stroke patients, more clinical trials, more new diagnostic technology, and more new treatments and therapeutic strategies. This major growth in interest and activity has been triggered and stimulated by the advent of diagnostic technology that can show the brain and its vasculature rapidly, safely, and accurately and by potential treatment of conditions that physicians felt powerless to effectively manage in the past.

This fourth edition will appear nearly a decade after the third edition. It proved much more difficult to produce and keep up to date due to the great proliferation of activity and literature in the expanding stroke field. This time the publisher was Elsevier, a very large international organization that had purchased Butterworth-Heinemann, as well as other smaller publishing companies. In order to produce a volume that
contained very consistent fi gures, all art was drawn by Elsevier artists. This was the only edition not illustrated by Dr. Juan Sanchez-Ramos.


New in this edition :

• Greatly expanded Chapters 4 (Imaging and Laboratory Diagnosis) and 5 (Treatment).
• Eliminated the chapter on surgery (Chapter 16 in the third edition titled Strokes, Cerebrovascular Disease, and Surgery) and integrated discussions of surgical treatment into Chapter 5 and into discussions of treatment of specific conditions in Chapters 6 through 13.
• Extensively revised the chapters on stroke prevention (Chapter 17) and on rehabilitation (Chapter 19), now concentrating the latter chapter on recovery.
• Expanded and updated the references for all of the chapters. In addition to there being more words on each page, this volume now contains 666 pages, 85 tables, and 282 figures.

The coverage of cerebrovascular disease and stroke is broader and more thorough than in previous editions, but, as before, Louis R. Caplan have strived to continue to provide personal opinions and his own modus operandi related to diagnosis and management.

Contents
Part I: General Principles

• 1. Introduction and Perspective
• 2. Basic Pathology, Anatomy, and Pathophysiology of Stroke
• 3. Diagnosis and the Clinical Encounter
• 4. Imaging and Laboratory Diagnosis
• 5. Treatment 

Part II: Stroke Syndromes

• 6. Large Artery Occlusive Disease of the Anterior Circulation
• 7. Large Vessel Occlusive Disease of the Posterior Circulation
• 8. Penetrating and Branch Artery Disease
• 9. Brain Embolism
• 10. Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy, Cardiac Arrests, and Cardiac Encephalopathy
• 11. Nonatherosclerotic Vasculopathies
• 12. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Aneurysms, and Vascular Malformations
• 13. Intracerebral Hemorrhage
• 14. Stroke in Children and Young Adults
• 15. Spinal Cord Vascular Disease
• 16. Cerebral Venous Thrombosis

Part III: Prevention, Complications, and Recovery - Rehabilitation

• 17. Stroke Prevention
• 18. Complications in Stroke Patients
• 19. Recovery and Rehabilitation

Index 

Product Details

• Hardcover: 688 pages
• Publisher: Saunders; 4 edition (May 21, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1416047212
• ISBN-13: 978-1416047216
• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 7.6 x 1.2 inches

List Price: $174.00