Neurology case studies: cerebrovascular disease

Neurol Clin. 2006 May;24(2):181-98. doi: 10.1016/j.ncl.2006.01.009.

Abstract

Data from randomized therapeutic trials often provide little relevant evidence for therapeutic decisions physicians make daily. By illustrating the nuances of these four complex cases involving cerebrovascular disease, the authors stress the importance of more time spent by specialists at the bed-side, exploring patients' symptoms and learning their thoughts, fears, biases, and wishes.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Brain / blood supply
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain / pathology
  • Carotid Stenosis / complications
  • Carotid Stenosis / diagnostic imaging
  • Carotid Stenosis / pathology*
  • Catheterization
  • Cerebral Hemorrhage / complications
  • Cerebral Hemorrhage / diagnosis
  • Cerebral Hemorrhage / surgery
  • Cerebral Veins / diagnostic imaging
  • Cerebral Veins / pathology
  • Cerebral Veins / surgery
  • Cerebrovascular Circulation / physiology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infarction, Posterior Cerebral Artery / diagnosis
  • Infarction, Posterior Cerebral Artery / etiology
  • Infarction, Posterior Cerebral Artery / surgery
  • Magnetic Resonance Angiography
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Remission, Spontaneous
  • Stroke / diagnostic imaging
  • Stroke / etiology
  • Stroke / pathology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Venous Thrombosis / diagnosis
  • Venous Thrombosis / surgery
  • Vertebral Artery / diagnostic imaging
  • Vertebral Artery / pathology
  • Vertebral Artery / surgery