title: Acute stroke: seeing the full picture.
abstract: Although recent attention has focused on choice of therapeutic agents in stroke, optimal management requires a broader view. Moving sequentially from the clinical manifestations through brain and then vascular imaging will usually provide the precise diagnosis needed to select the most appropriate therapy.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: L R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Caplan
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000465:Algorithms; D000925:Anticoagulants / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006801:Humans; D020766:Intracranial Embolism / Q000175:diagnosis; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020521:Stroke / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D000925:Anticoagulants