Effective management of patients who have cerebrovascular disease depends on accurate diagnosis. Many conditions cause clinical findings that closely mimic cerebrovascular disorders and are often ruled out through brain imaging or laboratory findings. Diagnosis of cerebrovascular disorders is based on the presence of risk factors for vascular disease, the tempo of onset, the presence of concurr...

New information about therapeutic interventions regarding several important aspects of cerebrovascular disease has appeared recently. This short review will focus on new therapeutic developments concerning the prevention of ischemic stroke, acute ischemic stroke therapy trials, and, lastly, the management of patients with intracranial aneurysms. Great strides have been made in the pharmacologic...

There is an urgent need for stroke experts to advance the care of their patients, yet current approaches are outmoded and have not been successful. The traditional emphasis on anatomical identification of disease, using percent luminal stenosis, results in suboptimal identification of lesions likely to produce recurrent ischemia and, consequently, results in poor patient selection and hampers t...

1Department of Neurology, Clinic of Neuology, Aging & Neural Repair Group, Medical University of Greifswald, Ellernholzstrasse 1-2, 17489 Greifswald, Germany 2University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 200344 Craiova, Romania 3Department of Neurosurgery, West Virginia University, One Medical Center Drive Morgantown, WV 26506, USA 4School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, College of Medical and D...