Common Pitfalls in Cerebrovascular Disease

1. Transient ischemic attacks and stroke mimics and chameleons Ana Catarina Fonseca; 2. Recognizing transient ischemic attacks in children and young adults Adriane J. Sinclair, Leanne K. Casaubon and Gabrielle deVeber; 3. Transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) - an underrecognized and undertreated disorder Patricia Canhao; 4. When the diagnostic image is not diagnostic David D. Pasquale and Jordan Rosenblum; 5. Choosing appropriate patients for anticoagulation Sarkis Morales-Vidal and Alejandro Hornik; 6. Antithrombotic management of recurrent atherothrombotic cerebrovascular disease Murray Flaster; 7. Common pitfalls in intravenous thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke Shyam Prabhakaran; 8. Dilemmas in endovascular stroke therapy David A. Stidd, Erwin Z. Mangubat and Demetrius K. Lopes; 9. Choosing the right patients for carotid artery procedural interventions Michael J. Schneck, Paul D. Ackerman and Christopher M. Loftus; 10. Stroke and patent foramen ovale: the conundrum of closure James R. Brorson; 11. The diagnosis and overdiagnosis of cerebral vasculitis Ruth Geraldes; 12. Recognizing cerebrovascular etiologies of 'thunderclap' headaches Raquel Gil-Gouveia; 13. Underdiagnosis of reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndromes Arash Salardini, Aneesh B. Singhal and Jose Biller; 14. Moya-Moya disease and other non-atherosclerotic cerebral vasculopathies Dominique Herve, Manoelle Kossorotoff and Hugues Chabriat; 15. Vascular dementia and vascular cognitive impairment Ana Verdelho; 16. Pitfalls in the diagnosis of subarachnoid hemorrhage Christopher P. Robinson and Sean Ruland; 17. Managing hemorrhagic stroke Katharina Maria Busl; 18. Managing patients or managing the results of ancillary tests? Jose M. Ferro; Index.