Acute Ischemic Stroke (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789533079837)

Despite significant technological advances in recent years, their impact on our overall health and social, well-being is not always clear to see. Perhaps, one of the best examples of this can be highlighted by the fact that mortality rates as a result of cerebrovascular diseases have hardly changed, if at all. This places cerebrovascular diseases as one of the most prominent causes of both disability and death. In Cuba, for instance, a total of 22,000 cases of cerebrovascular diseases are reported each year in a country where life expectancy should increase to 80 years in the near future. In such a situation, to have a book that includes in a clear and summarized way, a group of topics directly related to the preclinical investigations advances and the therapeutic procedures for the cerebrovascular disease in its acute phase constitutes a useful tool for the wide range of the contributors to this affection's problems solution. In this group is included students, professors, researchers, and health policy makers whose work represents one of the greatest social and human impact challenges of the XXI century basic and clinical neurosciences.

Author: Julio Cesar Garcia Rodriguez
ISBN-10: 9533079835
ISBN-13: 9789533079837
Publisher: Intechopen
Language: English
Published: 01/18/2012
Pages: 252
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.63d