Book Review–Vertebrobasilar Ischemia and Hemorrhage – Clinical Findings, Diagnosis and Management of Posterior Circulation Disease, Second edition
Author: Louis R. Caplan, MD Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 594 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani In his Foreword to this detailed second edition of this book by Dr. Louis R. Caplan on posterior circulation disease, Dr. C. Miller Fisher that in the 1950s, “there was no therapy for the stroke patient. A stroke was a stroke was a stroke.” What happened after that? Anticoagulants were introduced, and vascular surgery followed. As a consequence, Dr. Miller continues: “medicine was for the first time faced with the task of investigating the pathology and pathophysiology of the many types of...
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