Cerebrovascular Disease: Momentum at the End of the Second MillenniumISBN: 978-0-87993-484-2
Hardcover
455 pages
February 2002, Wiley-Blackwell
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In this book, an international group of investigators from a broad
array of clinical and basic disciplines present the ideas and
concepts in the foreground of cerebrovascular disease. Included in
their discussion are perspectives on topics that continue to guide
current investigations, such as white matter injury, newer imaging
approaches, delayed neuronal death, and recovery after stroke, as
well as continuing disagreements on the value of heparin or MRI
endpoints in the management of stroke patients.
Further topics include a proposal for a major multicenter re-study of the utility of extracranial-intracranial bypass surgery in light of additional diagnostic information available through PET scanning; examination of how processes such as apoptosis, inflammation, free radicals, poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase activation, and alterations in glutamate receptor function contribute to the pathogenesis of ischemic brain injury; and finally an exploration of how estrogens or cholesterol-lowering agents might be used therapeutically.