Etiqueta: Stephen M. Davis
The Ischemic Penumbra
Libros de Medicina en PDF The Ischemic Penumbra In the world of acute ischemic stroke, nothing is more important than an understanding of the ischemic penumbra. The whole concept of the existence of salvageable tissue, that is, the penumbra, is based on the daily clinical observation of almost immediate and early recovery from an episode of hemiparesis or other clinical expression of occlusion of a blood vessel within any of the arterial territories of the brain. Indeed, even before there was an appreciation of the complexities of the ischemic cascade, many clinicians dealing with stroke understood that something akin to
