• Perspective and Pathogenesis
• 23 min
  1. Expanding frontiers of cerebrovascular disease

  • Prof. Vladimir Hachinski
• 32 min
  2. Basic anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology of the cerebral circulation for the physician

  • Prof. Jean-Claude Baron
• 43 min
  3. Pathophysiology of cerebral ischemia

  • Prof. Wolf-Dieter Heiss
• 20 min
  4. Intracerebral hemorrhages: causes and clinical findings

  • Prof. Louis Caplan
• 40 min
  5. Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH)

  • Prof. R. Loch Macdonald
• Diagnosis
• 32 min
  6. Clinical diagnosis of stroke and subtypes

  • Prof. Louis Caplan
• 30 min
  7. The investigation of stroke

  • Dr. Bart Demaerschalk
• Treatment
• 35 min
  8. Acute therapy of stroke and reperfusion treatments

  • Prof. Brian Silver
• 39 min
  9. Subarachnoid hemorrhage diagnosis and management

  • Prof. Gary K. Steinberg
• 26 min
  10. Stroke-induced heart injury

  • Dr. Luciano A. Sposato
• Rehabilitation
• 37 min
  11. Stroke rehabilitation: principles of stroke

  • Prof. Robert Teasell
• 27 min
  12. Stroke rehabilitation: therapies and treatments

  • Prof. Robert Teasell
• Prevention
• 23 min
  13. Lifestyle and nutrition in stroke prevention

  • Prof. J. David Spence
• 40 min
  14. Prevention: carotid endarterectomy, angioplasty, and stenting

  • Prof. Brian Hoh
• Special Topics
• 54 min
  15. Pediatric stroke: cerebrovascular injury in the developing brain

  • Prof. Adam Kirton
• 43 min
  16. Stroke in women: epidemiology, risk and prevention

  • Prof. Cheryl Bushnell
• 25 min
  17. Transient ischemic attack and cognition

  • Dr. Jennifer Mandzia
• 31 min
  18. Vascular cognitive impairment

  • Prof. Eric E. Smith
• 34 min
  19. Atrial fibrillation, anticoagulation and vitamins for homocysteine

  • Prof. J. David Spence
• 41 min
  20. Stroke in the young adult

  • Prof. Jeffrey Saver
• 16 min
  21. Stroke in the young

  • Dr. Gyan Kumar
• 23 min
  22. Convergence and joint prevention of stroke and dementia

  • Prof. Vladimir Hachinski
• Archived Lectures *These may not cover the latest advances in the field
• 55 min
  23. Vascular cognitive impairment

  • Dr. John Bowler
• 32 min
  24. Pediatric stroke

  • Dr. Gabrielle deVeber
• 36 min
  25. The deteriorating stroke

  • Prof. Werner Hacke
• 27 min
  26. General management

  • Prof. Bo Norrving
• 35 min
  27. The treatment of stroke: specific management - thrombolysis plus

  • Prof. Nils Wahlgren
• 42 min
  28. Rehabilitation: the chronic phase

  • Prof. Lalit Kalra
• 61 min
  29. Prevention: management of risk and protective factors

  • Prof. Graeme Hankey
• 30 min
  30. Medical therapy for secondary prevention of ischemic stroke

  • Prof. Larry Goldstein
• 34 min
  31. Subarachnoid haemorrhage

  • Prof. Jan van Gijn
• 35 min
  32. Controversies in stroke

  • Prof. Stephen Davies
  • Prof. Geoffrey Donnan
• 35 min
  33. Medical and surgical stroke

  • Prof. Carlos Kase
• 35 min
  34. The urgency of stroke prevention after TIA

  • Prof. S. Claiborne Johnston
• 54 min
  35. Carotid endarterectomy, angioplasty and stenting

  • Prof. Martin Brown
• 42 min
  36. The clinical diagnosis of stroke and stroke subtypes

  • Prof. Louis Caplan

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1. Introduction
2. 1. Think
3. 2. Stroke evaluation
4. 3. Clinical diagnosis- step 1
5. History- the What diagnosis (1)
6. History- the What diagnosis (2)
7. History- the Where diagnosis
8. 4. After the history, make hypotheses
9. Case Example
10. What diagnoses
11. Where diagnoses
12. 5. Distinguish between what / where hypotheses
13. Queries to test during the exam
14. Case example- examination
15. 6. Revise the what / where diagnoses
16. Modified What Diagnosis
17. Modified Where Diagnosis
18. 7. Planning the different investigations
19. 8. Ask for other causes
20. 9. Routine blood tests
21. 10. Precise detailed diagnosis
22. Stroke is a Cerebrovascular disease
23. Data needed to logically treat stroke patients
24. 11. Obtain brain and vascular imaging
25. 12. When can MRI be the sole procedure
26. Hamorage seen by MRI and CT scan
27. 13. CT and MRI scans can yield vascular data
28. CT scan, MRI of the medulla and cerebellum
29. Chinese patient CT results
30. Striato-capsular infarct
31. 14. Obtain vascular testing
32. Some MRA and CTA images
33. Perfusion CT
34. The Duplex scan
35. Cartoon of a plaque within the carotid artery
36. Color flow duplex image
37. Composite image of beam modes
38. TCD imaging
39. Image of the vertebal arteries
40. Triphasic CT perfusion
41. The capability of multi model MRI
42. Examples of multi model MRI (1)
43. Examples of multi model MRI (2)
44. Scan taken 24 hours later
45. Other uses of multi model MRI (1)
46. Other uses of multi model MRI (2)
47. MRA and angiography results in our case study
48. Abrupt cutoff in the middle cerebral artery
49. Middle cerebral artery
50. 15. Importance of studying the heart and aorta
51. Trans-esophageal Echocardiogram
52. Aortic plaques and a left atrial thrombus
53. Left atrial / ventricle thrombus
54. Patent foramen ovale
55. Echocardiography in the chinese patient
56. 16. Review history and examination a few times
57. 17. Treatment needs to be specific
58. 18. Treatment considerations

Topics Covered

• Sequential hypothesis-driven data acquisition
• History-taking
• Physical examinations
• Neurological examinations
• Brain imaging
• Vascular imaging

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Series:

• Cerebrovascular Disease

Categories:

• Clinical Practice
• Neuroscience

Therapeutic Areas:

• Neurology

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on October 27, 2008
• Archived on January 31, 2022

Financial Disclosures

• There are no commercial/financial matters to disclose.