Cerebrovascular Disease

Patients suffering from cerebrovascular disease pose many clinical challenges and even experienced clinicians can arrive at the point where diagnostic, work-up, treatment, or prognostic thinking falters. Authored by a vascular neurologist whose work spans the entire spectrum of this group of brain dysfunctions, Cerebrovascular Disease helps clinicians evaluate and manage patients suffering from stroke, embolism, thrombosis, hemorrhage, and other critical presentations. In a medical field where it's often difficult to distill the vast array of research and apply it in any meaningful clinical way, this next volume in the "What Do I Do Now?" series focuses on walking the clinician through evidence-based decision-making. Each clinical scenario featured in Cerebrovascular Disease describes in careful detail the presentation, diagnostic studies, treatment options, and rationale for handling these tricky cases.

About the Author :
Attending in Neurology and Director, Stroke Prevention Program, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center. Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology, Columbia University.

Review :
"I am impressed with the unique format of case reports that are each instructive of a clinical lesson, including modern brain imaging and intravascular approaches to diagnosis and treatment of brain lesions. The numerous figures are ample, clear, and helpful. This little book will find its way in to the pockets of residents everywhere." -- Lewis P. Rowland MD, Neurological Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY "Dr. Chong's book provides a thorough review of Vascular Neurology, all presented through a series of quickly digested real-life cases. Each case illustrates a common stroke-related diagnostic or treatment situation, and provides insight into the approach of an experienced clinician. The rationale for decision-making is fully justified by the available evidence base where data exist, and by sophisticated reasoning in the gray areas where there are no data. Novices will appreciate the fundamentals of stroke neurology, but even experts will find new tidbits of information in this easy to read but comprehensive book." -- Mitchell S. V. Elkind, MD, MS, FAAN, FAHA, Fellowships Director, Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, NY "Ji Chong has put together this terrific book that instructs us one case at a time about many of the evidence-based approaches to manage our stroke patients...The innovative approach in this book of weaving together the careful patient histories, illustrative brain images, and other diagnostic images with insightful commentaries is a great way to learn about the latest approaches to stroke management. Each case makes many teaching points and paints a picture to help us care for countless other patients in our daily pursuit to reduce the consequences of stroke." -- Ralph L Sacco, MD, Chairman of Neurology, Executive Director, Evelyn McKnight Brain Institute, Olemberg Family Chair in Neurological Disorders, Miller Professor of Neurology, Epidemiology & Public Health, Human Genetics, and Neurosurgery, Chief of Neurology, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, FL