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Medical Management Of Cerebral Vascular Disease, William K. Hass
Medical Management Of Cerebral Vascular Disease, William K. Hass
MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly
The judicious mixture of surgical therapy and prophylactic therapy with a safe platelet antiaggregant appears at this time to be the best combination of approaches to the axiom: The best time to treat a stroke is before it happens.
Reconstructive Intracranial Vascular Surgery, John M. Tew Jr.
Reconstructive Intracranial Vascular Surgery, John M. Tew Jr.
MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly
It is scarcely less than two decades since the initial cautious explorations of reconstructive surgery for the prevention of cerebral infarction caused by extracranial vascular disease began. The next years recorded an accumulative experience in the field of vascular surgery. Early clinical investigations led to the discovery that extracranial vascular disease is a major cause of cerebral infarction or stroke. Estimates indicate, however, that only 30-40% of the patients with cerebrovascular insufficiency have significant extracranial occlusive disease. For this larger group of patients, previous surgical methods offer no hope. It is the purpose of this report to review the current …