Blood Pressure Management and Stroke Prevention

This highly illustrated slim book offers a convenient guide to the basics of stroke, therapies (management of acute ischemic stroke and secondary stroke prevention), and hypertension as a risk factor. Cases are from the Neurovascular Clinic, and from the Stroke Center, at Hartford Hospital, Connecticut, where Isaac E. Silverman is affiliated; the other two authors are Marilyn M. Rymer (UKMC School of Medicine, Missouri) and Luis M. Ruilope (Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain). Material in the first two (of the three) chapters was first published in 2009 as part of Silverman and Rymer's Ischemic Stroke: an Atlas of Investigation and Treatment. Clinical Publishing, UK is an imprint of Atlas Medical Publishing Ltd; distribution in the US is by BookMasters. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)