Handbook on Neurovascular Ultrasound (Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience, Vol. 21)

Neurovascular ultrasound increases the reliability of assessing occlusive cerebrovascular disease, including the detection of instable carotid plaques, the delineation of cerebral perfusion and therapeutic options such as ultrasound-enhanced sonothrombolysis. Written by international experts, this publication provides the reader with the present knowledge and future research directions of diagnostic and therapeutic neurovascular ultrasound. The first chapters deal with physical and technical principles of ultrasound, arterial wall imaging, endothelial function testing and modern assessment of atherosclerotic obstruction of the carotid and vertebro-basilar systems. Subsequently, typical ultrasound findings in cervical artery dissection, dural fistula, glomus tumor and vasculitis are reported. The book concludes with the description of diagnostic and therapeutic transcranial ultrasound and clinical applications of transcranial Doppler monitoring as well as the presentation of future developments. Neurologists, angiologists and radiologists will find a valuable source of up-to-date information on this fascinating, essentially non-invasive technique, which allows real-time assessment of the human cerebral vessels. N-G 1 Contents.pdf 2 01 Physical and Technical Principles.pdf 10 02 Arterial Wall Imaging.pdf 28 03 Endothelial Function Testing.pdf 36 04 Atherosclerotic Carotid Stenosis and Occlusion.pdf 45 05 Ultrasound Diagnostics of the Vertebrobasilar System.pdf 66 06 Ultrasound Diagnosis of Cervical Artery Dissection.pdf 79 07 Intracranial Dural Arteriovenous and Carotid-Cavernous Fistulae and Paragangliomas.pdf 94 08 Takayasu and Temporal Arteritis.pdf 105 09 Transcranial Insonation.pdf 114 10 Intracranial Stenoses and Occlusions, and Circle of Willis Collaterals.pdf 126 11 Acute Stroke-Perfusion Imaging.pdf 136 12 Sonothrombolysis- Experimental Evidence.pdf 149 13 Acute Stroke-Therapeutic Transcranial Doppler Sonography.pdf 159 14 Acute Stroke- Therapeutic Transcranial Color Duplex Sonography.pdf 171 15 Cerebral Aneurysms and Arteriovenous Malformations.pdf 180 16 Cerebral Veins and Sinuses.pdf 191 17 Detection of Microembolic Signals with Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound.pdf 203 18 Contrast-Enhanced Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound for Diagnosis of Patent Foramen Ovale.pdf 215 19 Cerebral Autoregulation and Vasomotor Reactivity.pdf 225 20 Cerebral Circulation Monitoring in Carotid Endarterectomy and Carotid Artery Stenting.pdf 238 21 Syncope.pdf 248 22 Functional Transcranial Doppler Sonography.pdf 260 23 Future Developments in Neurovascular Ultrasound.pdf 270 Author Index.pdf 278 Subject Index.pdf 279