Prevention of Stroke

A new concept in patient care is presented: measures to prevent stroke which can be implemented by neurologists and neurosurgeons and should be known to all internists, family physicians etc. treating patients in danger of having a stroke.

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1 Stroke Prevention: Past, Present, and Future.- I Medical Prevention of Stroke.- 2 Cellular Basis of Atherosclerosis.- 3 Prevention of Atherothrombotic Brain Infarction: Role of Lipids.- 4 Regression of Atherosclerosis.- 5 Drug Inhibition of Experimental Carotid Atherogenesis.- 6 Stroke Risk Factors.- 7 Head and Neck Bruits in Stroke Prevention.- 8 Hypertension and Stroke Prevention.- 9 Aspirin in Stroke Prevention.- 10 Ticlopidine: A New Drug to Prevent Stroke.- 11 Present Status of Anticoagulant Prophylaxis.- 12 Prevention of Cardioembolic Stroke.- 13 Clinical Trials in Stroke: A New Approach.- II Surgical Prevention of Stroke.- 14 Carotid Endarterectomy: A Challenge for Scientific Medicine.- 15 Carotid Endarterectomy in Patients with Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis.- 16 Does Carotid Endarterectomy Prevent Stroke?.- 17 Balloon Transluminal Angioplasty of the Carotid Artery in the Head and Neck.- 18 Preventing Cerebral Complications of Cardiac Surgery.- 19 Prevention of Stroke from Cerebral Vascular Malformations.- 20 Prevention of Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.- 21 Prevention of Recurrent Stroke.