Interventional Stroke Therapy

Invaluable for all members of the stroke team, this expertly written book compiles the full range of diagnostic and interventional therapeutic techniques for acute stroke now in use in modern clinical settings throughout the world. From advanced neuroimaging studies to state-of-the art endovascular therapies, it covers the materials, instruments, devices, procedures, and strategies that lead to optimal results, and most benefit the patient, during this time-critical event.

Special Features:

- An interdisciplinary approach
- Provides detailed "how-to" descriptions of all endovascular stroke treatment techniques, periprocedural monitoring, and instrumentation, with a focus on implementing these methods in everyday practice
- Logically organized in didactically structured chapters on diagnosis and treatment, with sections on acute ischemic stroke, acute venous occlusions, and supra-aortic extra- and intracranial stenoses, including their etiology, pathogenesis, symptoms, imaging studies, and recommended therapies for each condition
- Written by a team of renowned international specialists, who provide advice, recommendations, and practical guidelines in every chapter
- Discusses and critically rates the stents, retrievers, filters, and balloon systems in use today
- Includes nearly 300 key images taken with the latest generation of imaging equipment
- Shares helpful clinical insights in sidebar notes, cautions, tips and advice, possible complications, sources of error, and useful chapter summaries/conclusions

For all neuroradiologists, radiologists, neurosurgeons, and neurologists who need concise, clinically relevant information on front-line interventional techniques for stroke treatment and prevention, this book is essential. It reviews all current methods, rates their efficacies, and makes progress toward a uniformity of protocols that can

I Neuroimaging of Stroke
1 Internal Carotid Artery Occlusion
2 Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion
3 Vertebrobasilar Occlusion
4 Dissections
5 Cerebral Venous and Sinus Thrombosis
Neuroimaging of Stroke: Summary and Recommendations (Chapters 1-5)
II Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke
6 Thrombolysis
7 Mechanical Recanalization Materials
8 Treatment Concepts and Results
Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke: Summary and Recommendations (Chapters 6-8)
III Treatment of Acute Cerebral Venous Occlusions
9 Treatment of Acute Cerebral Venous Occlusions
Treatment of Acute Cerebral Venous Occlusions: Summary and Recommendations (Chapter 9)
IV Treatment of Supra-aortic Extra- and Intracranial Stenoses
10 Equipment: Stents, Filters, and Balloon Systems
11 Extracranial Carotid Stenoses
12 Intracranial Stenoses
13 Subclavian Steal Syndrome
14 Proximal Vertebral Artery Stenosis
15 Proximal Stenosis of Supra-aortic Vessels
Treatment of Supra-aortic Extra- and Intracranial Stenoses: Summary and Recommendations (Chapters 10-15)