• 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. Overview
3. Stroke incidence throughout adulthood
4. Stroke incidence in young adults
5. Common neurologic disorders of young adulthood
6. Stroke subtypes across the lifespan
7. Risk factor prevalence in young adult patients
8. Genetic causes of stroke
9. Subtypes of ischemic stroke mechanism
10. Categories of causes of ischemic stroke
11. Selected causes of accelerated atherosclerosis
12. Selected inflammatory arteriopathies
13. Selected noninflammatory arteriopathies
14. Vasospasm and abnormal vasoregulation
15. Cardiac embolism
16. Transcardiac embolism
17. Hypercoagulation and hematologic disease (1)
18. Hypercoagulation and hematologic disease (2)
19. MELAS disorder
20. Intracerebral hemorrhage in young adults
21. Clinical features of SAH in young adults
22. Differential diagnosis of SAH in the young adult
23. Work-up of the young stroke patient
24. History
25. Physical examination
26. Laboratory evaluation: standard
27. Laboratory tests: vasculitis
28. Hypercoagulable state initial screening
29. Cardiac evaluation
30. Brain parenchyma imaging
31. Aortocervicocerebral vessel imaging
32. Additional tests in select cases
33. Prognosis in the young adult stroke patient
34. Treatment: distinctive aspects
35. Summary
36. Acknowledgements

Topics Covered

• Strokes in young adults: 3% of all adult strokes
• Stroke subtypes across the lifespan
• Risk factor prevalence
• Genetic causes of stroke
• Ischemic stroke mechanism subtypes in young adults
• Selected inflammatory arteriopathies
• Arteriopathies due to vasospasm and abnormal vasoregulation
• Cardiac embolism
• Transcardiac embolism
• Hypercoagulable states and hematologic disease
• Mitochondrial encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, stroke-like episodes (MELAS)
• Intracerebral hemorrhage in young adults
• Clinical features
• Differential diagnosis of subarachnoid hemorrhage in the young adult
• Work-up of the young stroke patient
• Laboratory tests
• Cardiac evaluation
• Imaging
• Additional tests
• Prognosis
• Treatment: diverse

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Series:

• Cerebrovascular Disease

Categories:

• Clinical Practice
• Neuroscience

Therapeutic Areas:

• Neurology

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Publication History

• Published on October 27, 2008
• Archived on March 30, 2021

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Jeffrey Saver has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.