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Edited by Julien Bogousslavsky. 304 pp., illustrated. London, Martin Dunitz, 1997. (Distributed by Mosby, St. Louis.) $120. ISBN 1-85317-413-0.

Not long ago, I overheard a distinguished cardiologist lamenting in private that brain infarcts would be a far less serious problem if neurologists could only get out of bed at a moment's notice to insert an arterial catheter into a patient. Alas, the solution is not as simple as that. The window of time for salvaging brain tissue is much narrower than that for heart muscle, and the danger of intracerebral hemorrhage lurks around the corner, even with the intravenous administration of thrombolytic agents. However, stroke treatment was released from its Cinderella status among treatments for arterial disorders after two . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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