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Louis R. Caplan (born December 31, 1936) is an American physician who is a senior member of the Division of Cerebrovascular Disease at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston. He is a Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School , Boston, and the founder of the Harvard Stroke Registry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Brajesh K. Lal, born in 1963 in Varanasi, India and of Indian origin, is an American surgeon, and an expert in vascular disease, particularly the prevention and treatment of stroke and venous disease. He is a tenured Professor of Vascular Surgery at the University of Maryland and Professor of Neurology at Mayo Clinic.
The most common presentation of cerebrovascular disease is an ischemic stroke or mini-stroke and sometimes a hemorrhagic stroke. [2] Hypertension (high blood pressure) is the most important contributing risk factor for stroke and cerebrovascular diseases as it can change the structure of blood vessels and result in atherosclerosis. [5]
Strokes are a type of cerebrovascular disease affecting the blood vessels in your brain. ... Diagnosing Cardiovascular Disease. Your doctor may order many different tests to help diagnose ...
Saver received his A.B. degree at Harvard College (1981), where he studied biochemical sciences and philosophy, and his M.D degree from Harvard Medical School (1986). [2] [3] Upon earning his medical degree, Saver completed a neurology residency at the Harvard-Longwood Program, ands fellowships in Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology at the University of Iowa and Vascular Neurology at Brown ...
The American Heart Association recently updated its risk equations for predicting the risk of cardiovascular disease events, which means that millions of Americans may soon no longer qualify for ...
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In 1976 Tew and Thoralf Sundt, MD, founded the American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons Section on Cerebrovascular Surgery. His dozens of published journal articles [ 8 ] explored research in the treatment of brain tumors, cerebral aneurysms, [ 9 ] image-guided surgery and trigeminal neuralgia.