Manual of Neurosonology

Neurosonology is non-invasive, portable, and has excellent temporal resolution, making it a valuable and increasingly popular tool for the diagnosis and monitoring of neurological conditions when compared to other imaging techniques. This guide looks beyond the use of neurovascular ultrasound in stroke to encompass a wide range of other neurological diseases and emergencies. It offers a practical approach to the examination of patients, interpretation of ultrasound studies, and the application of neurosonology to the development of management and treatment strategies. Each chapter incorporates a thorough and clear procedural methodology alongside scanning tips for trainees; this step-by-step approach is further enhanced by example images and focused diagnostic questions. Authored and edited by international experts, this practical manual of neurosonology is an invaluable resource for neurologists, neurosurgeons, intensivists, radiologists and ultrasonographers.

List of contributors; Foreword David Russell; 1. Introduction László Olah; 2. Cervical arterial insonation José-Manuel Molto-Jorda and Galina Baltgaile; 3. Carotid wall imaging José Gutierrez and Tatjana Rundek; 4. Endothelial function testing László Csiba; 5. Atherosclerotic carotid disease Massimo Del Sette, Valentina Saia, Edoardo Vicenzini and G.-Michael von Reutern; 6. Atherosclerotic vertebral artery disease Ralf Dittrich and E. Bernd Ringelstein; 7. Cervical artery dissection Claudio Baracchini; 8. Cervical artery vasculitides Mathias H. Sturzenegger; 9. Transcranial insonation Eva Bartels, José-M. Valdueza, Ekaterina Titianova and Ildikó Vastagh; 10. Intracranial stenosis/occlusion Claudio Baracchini and Kurt Niederkorn; 11. Extracranial/intracranial collateral pathways Manfred Kaps; 12. Acute ischemic stroke Georgios Tsivgoulis and Aristeidis H. Katsanos, and Christos Krogias; 13. Intracranial perfusion imaging Stephen Meairs; 14. Sonothrombolysis José Navarro, Kristian Barlinn, Georgios Tsivgoulis and Andrei V. Alexandrov; 15. Microembolic signal detection László Nemeth, Vendel Kemény and László Csiba; 16. Right-to-left shunt detection Susanna Horner; 17. Cerebral autoregulation Elsa Azevedo and Pedro Castro; 18. Vasomotor reactivity Alexander Gur, Attila Csányi and Natan M. Bornstein; 19. Functional transcranial ultrasound Juergen Klingelhoefer; 20. Neuromonitoring under critical care conditions Béla Fülesdi, Péter Siró and Csilla Molnár; 21. Cerebral circulatory arrest Stephan J. Schreiber; 22. Intracranial venous ultrasound Erwin Stolz; 23. Cervical venous ultrasound Florian Doepp (Connolly) and José-M. Valdueza; 24. Brain parenchyma imaging Uwe Walter; 25. Orbital ultrasound Mario Siebler; 26. Ultrasonography of the peripheral nerves Henrich Kele; Index.

László Csiba is Professor and Chairman at the Department of Neurology at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, and former president of the European Society of Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics.
Claudio Baracchini is Director of the Stroke Center and Neurovascular Ultrasound Laboratory at the University of Padua School of Medicine, and Secretary of the European Society of Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics.