Transient Ischemic Attack and Stroke: Diagnosis, Investigation and Treatment

Preface; Part I. Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Pathophysiology and Causes of Transient Ischemic Attacks and Stroke: 1. Epidemiology; 2. Risk factors; 3. Genetics; 4. Anatomy and physiology; 5. Pathophysiology of acute cerebral ischemia; 6. Causes of transient ischemic attack and ischemic stroke; 7. Causes of spontaneous intracranial hemorrhage; Part II. Clinical Features, Diagnosis and Investigation: 8. Clinical features and differential diagnosis of a transient ischemic attack; 9. The clinical features and differential diagnosis of acute stroke; 10. Brain imaging in transient ischemic attack and minor stroke; 11. Brain imaging in major acute stroke; 12. Vascular imaging in transient ischemic attack and stroke; 13. Non-radiological investigations for transient ischemic attack and stroke; Part III. Prognosis of Transient Ischemic Attack and Stroke: 14. Methods of determining prognosis; 15. Short-term prognosis after transient ischemic attack and minor stroke; 16. Short-term prognosis after major stroke; 17. Long-term prognosis after transient ischemic attack and stroke; Part IV. Treatment of Transient Ischemic Attack and Stroke: 18. Methods of assessing treatments; 19. Acute treatment of transient ischemic attack and minor stroke; 20. Acute treatment of major stroke: general principles; 21. Specific treatments for major acute ischemic stroke; 22. Specific treatment of acute intracerebral hemorrhage; 23. Recovery and rehabilitation after stroke; Part V. Secondary Prevention: 24. Medical therapies; 25. Carotid endarterectomy; 26. Carotid stenting and other interventions; 27. Selection of patients for carotid intervention; 28. Intervention for asymptomatic carotid stenosis; Part VI. Miscellaneous Disorders: 29. Cerebral venous thrombosis; 30. Spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage; 31. Vascular cognitive impairment: epidemiology, definitions, stroke-associated dementia and delirium; 32. Vascular cognitive impairment: investigation and treatment.