Ischemic Stroke: Acute Thrombolytic Therapy, Antithrombotic Approaches, and General Management Gregory J. Del Zoppo Jeffrey L. Saver PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF ACUTE STROKE Stroke is a syndrome of fixed or…
Prevention of Thromboembolic Stroke in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation, Valvular Heart Disease, or Cardiomyopathy Thomas L. Kawano Jonathan L. Halperin Patients with various forms of cardiac disease are at risk…
Pathophysiology of Thromboembolic Stroke Emer R. Mcgrath Martin J. O’Donnell Stroke is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as “rapidly developing clinical signs of focal (at times global) disturbance…
Acute Coronary Syndromes: Manifestations and Management John Paul Vavalle John H. Alexander Matthew T. Roe Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a global health epidemic that contributes to more than 7…
Pathophysiology of Atherothrombosis Peter Libby Paul M. Ridker Kevin Croce Advances in contemporary vascular biology have contributed enormously to increased understanding of the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and its thrombotic complications,…
Overview of Arterial Thrombotic Disorders Sam Schulman Victor J. Marder In comparison with venous thromboembolism, which has a relatively uniform pathophysiology and standardized treatments, arterial diseases have disparate anatomic origins…
Treatment of Venous Thromboembolic Disease Sam Schulman Jeffrey Ginsberg James Douketis The management of venous thromboembolic disease has in some respects taken recent giant leaps forward but has in other…
Prevention of Venous Thromboembolic Disease Menno V. Huisman Sharif Pasha Patrick Mismetti Ajay Kakkar Venous thromboembolic disease frequently complicates the course of patients undergoing a variety of surgical interventions. Indeed,…
Sequelae of Venous Thromboembolic Disease: Postthrombotic Syndrome and Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension Vittorio Pengo Susan R. Kahn POSTTHROMBOTIC SYNDROME The postthrombotic syndrome (PTS) is an important, underrecognized, chronic sequela of…
Venous Thrombosis in Unusual Sites Victor J. Marder Hylton V. Joffe Sam Schulman Venous thromboembolism (VTE) typically presents with lower extremity deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism (PE).1,2 Upper…
