Transient Ischemic Attack and Stroke

Gary K. K. Lau is a Clinical Research Fellow at the Centre for Prevention of Stroke and Dementia, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford. Sarah T. Pendlebury is an Associate Professor in Medicine and Old Age Neuroscience at the Centre for Prevention of Stroke and Dementia, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford. Peter M. Rothwell is an Action Research Professor of Neurology at the University of Oxford, and the Director at the Centre for Prevention of Stroke and Dementia, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford.

• 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.

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