Carotid Disease: The Role of Imaging in Diagnosis and Management - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521862264 ISBN 13: 9780521862264

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Stroke is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, with carotid disease representing an important contributory risk factor. This book offers comprehensive coverage of the pathogenesis and management of carotid disease with specific focus on the role imaging has to play in the early recognition of symptomatic and asymptomatic disease as well as the treatment of the developed condition. Technological advances in imaging modalities now allow detailed analysis of the disease progression, the prediction of critical events leading to a stroke, as well as the identification of the most effective surgical or other interventional treatments. This book should be read by neurologists, cardiologists, vascular surgeons, neurosurgeons and radiologists involved in the care of patients with carotid disease, and also by researchers involved in the development of new therapeutic techniques and drugs.Stroke is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, with carotid disease representing an important contributory risk factor. This book offers comprehensive coverage of the pathogenesis and management of carotid disease with specific focus on the role imaging has to play in the early recognition of symptomatic and asymptomatic disease as well as the treatment of the developed condition. It discusses the technological advances in imaging modalities which now allow detailed analysis of the disease progression, the prediction of critical events leading to a stroke, as well as the identification of the most effective surgical or other interventional treatments. Highly illustrated throughout with leading expert contributors, this book should be read by neurologists, cardiologists, vascular surgeons, neurosurgeons and radiologists involved in the care of patients with carotid disease, and also by researchers involved in the development of new therapeutic techniques and drugs.

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About the Authors

Jonathan Gillard is a Reader in Neuroradiology in the University of Cambridge, and an Honorary Consultant Neuroradiologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Martin Graves is Consultant Clinical Scientist in the Departments of Radiology and Medical Physics at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Thomas Hatsukami is a Professor of Vascular Surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington.

Chun Yuan is a Professor of Radiology at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521862264
• ISBN 13: 9780521862264
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 556
• Editor: Gillard Jonathan, Graves Martin, Hatsukami Thomas, Yuan Chun