Stroke prevention in clinical practice

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Preface -- [pt]. 1. Introduction -- 1. The significance of stroke -- 2. Identifying patients at risk of ischemic stroke -- 3. Investigating patients at risk of stroke -- [pt]. 2. Reducing the risk of stroke by reducing embolic events -- 4. Antiplatelet therapy -- 5. Reducing cardioembolic events -- The management of atrial fibrillation -- Managing cardiac valve lesions -- Acute myocardial infarction -- Mural disease -- 6. Reducing cervical vessel embolic events -- [pt. 3]. Reducing the risk of stroke by modifying atherosclerotic risk factors -- 7. Managing hypertension -- 8. Managing diabetes -- 9. Managing hyperlipidemia -- 10. Reducing the risk of stroke by modifying life style -- Smoking cessation -- Obesity -- Exercise and fitness -- Diet modification -- 11. Identifying other atherosclerotic diseases -- 12. Managing lacunar infarcts. [pt. 4]. Reducing the risk of stroke by reducing procoagulant (thrombotic) risk factors -- 13. Managing procoagulant thrombotic states -- Managing thrombophilia (disturbances in coagulation/anticoagulation cascade) -- Managing sickle cell disease -- Managing myeloproliferative disorders -- [pt]. 5. Reducing the risk of stroke from other causes -- 14. Managing central nervous system vasculitis -- 15. Managing stroke in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients -- 16. Thyroid diseases and stroke -- [pt]. 6. prevention of other cardiovascular events in cerebrovascular patients -- 17. Management of silent myocardial ischemia in stroke patients -- Index.