Neurocardiology: The Emerging Field of Brain/Heart Interactions

ISBN-13: 9780443151804 / Angielski

Mitchell S. V. Elkind

Spis treści

1. Brain Science/Heart Science: Exploring the Boundaries
2. What is Neurocardiology?
3. Enhancing cooperation between neurology and cardiology services
4. Cardiac evaluation of the stroke patient: Standardizing approaches
5. Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke: The Paradigmatic Connection Between the Heart and the Brain
6. Searching for Atrial Fibrillation after Stroke
7. The Burden of Atrial Fibrillation and Risk of Stroke
8. Left atrial appendage exclusion as a treatment for AF-related stroke
9. The coexistence of cerebral amyloid angiopathy and atrial fibrillation: Clinical Approaches
10. Atrial fibrillation and dementia: Coincidence or cause?
11. Aging heart, aging brain: Heart failure, stroke, and cognition
12. Atrial cardiopathy and stroke risk: Separating facts from hypotheses
13. Patent Foramen Ovale as a cause of stroke
14. Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale for stroke prevention
15. Aortic arch atheroma and stroke: state of the science
16. Unusual cardiac causes of stroke: fibroelastoma, myxoma, bicuspid aortic valve, aortic valve calcification
17. Thrombophilia and stroke risk: Diagnostic considerations
18. Antithrombotic therapy in patients with stroke and ischemic heart disease
19. Effects of brain injury on cardiac function: Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, sudden cardiac death
20. Neurological complications of cardiac transplantation
21. Endovascular carotid treatment approaches for hypertension management
22. Heart vessels, brain vessels: differential mechanisms in vascular remodeling
23. Insights from cardiovascular research into brain physiology
24. Insights from neuroscience research into cardiac physiology
25. Insights from Emergency Cardiovascular Care and Stroke Systems of Care/Mobile Stroke Units
26. Directions for future research in Neurocardiology