• 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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Navigable Slide Index

1. Introduction
2. The Initial stroke evaluation
3. Systematic approach to diagnosis of stroke
4. Stroke mimickers
5. Anterior circulation
6. Posterior circulation
7. Cortical vs. subcortical
8. Differential diagnosis
9. General approach to investigation of stroke
10. Cardioembolic source
11. Major cardioembolic sources
12. Minor cardioembolic sources
13. Large vessel extracranial source
14. Large vessel intracranial source
15. Small vessel disease - lacunar stroke
16. Coagulation disorders
17. Case example - 1
18. Questions and answers - 1
19. Case example - 2
20. Questions and answers - 2
21. Primary causes of intracerebral hemorrhage
22. Secondary causes of intracerebral hemorrhage
23. Diagnostic tests in ICH
24. Closing
25. Reference list and suggested reading

Topics Covered

• Systematic approach to diagnosis of stroke
• Stroke mimickers
• Differential diagnosis of stroke mechanisms
• General approach to investigation of stroke
• Case examples

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Series:

• Cerebrovascular Disease

Categories:

• Clinical Practice
• Neuroscience

Therapeutic Areas:

• Neurology

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on October 27, 2008

Financial Disclosures

• Dr. Bart Demaerschalk has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.