ISCHEMIC CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE

ISCHEMIC CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE By H. P. Adams, V. C. Hachinski and J. W. Norris 2001. New York: Oxford University Press Price £95. pp. 608. ISBN 0195132890Ischemic Cerebrovascular Disease is part of the Contemporary Neurology series. I read it over a weekend and then used it over a 3‐month period to look up clinical issues which came up on the wards and in the clinic.The book contains 14 chapters, all of which are well referenced. The contents pages allow the reader to scan the sub‐headings of the text easily and quickly. After an introductory chapter the reader is guided through the epidemiology of ischaemic stroke to the presentations of stroke and transient ischaemic attack. Chapter 4 discusses the clinical evaluation of TIA and stroke patients, Chapter 5 focuses on atherosclerotic cerebrovascular disease and Chapter 6 on cardiac sources of embolism. Non‐artherosclerotic vasculopathies, pro‐thrombotic states and stroke in children and young adults (and genetic causes of ischaemic stroke) follow in Chapters 7–9. Chapter 10 discusses the medical therapy for the prevention of ischaemic …