• 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
• 20 min
  3. Intracerebral hemorrhages: causes and clinical findings

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

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

  • Prof. Louis Caplan
• Treatment
• 35 min
  6. Acute therapy of stroke and reperfusion treatments

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Prof. J. David Spence
• 23 min
  18. Convergence and joint prevention of stroke and dementia

  • Prof. Vladimir Hachinski
• 16 min
  19. Stroke in the young

  • Dr. Gyan Kumar
• 55 min
  20. Vascular cognitive impairment

  • Dr. John Bowler
• Archived Lectures *These may not cover the latest advances in the field
• 32 min
  21. Pediatric stroke

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Prof. Louis Caplan
• 43 min
  34. Pathophysiology of cerebral ischemia

  • Prof. Wolf-Dieter Heiss
• 30 min
  35. The investigation of stroke

  • Dr. Bart Demaerschalk
• 41 min
  36. Stroke in the young adult

  • Prof. Jeffrey Saver

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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
• Archived on May 28, 2025

Financial Disclosures

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