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This volume contains 93 papers from internationally recognized experts in the field of brain edema and brain injury. The papers include human and animal studies on edema following stroke, cerebral hemorrhage, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury and hydrocephalus. Papers also address fluid dynamics in the brain (including the role of aquaporins). ... Read more

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Brain edema is found in a wide variety of clinical disorders including stroke, intracerebral haemorrhage, subarachnoid haemorrhage, head injury, brain tumors and hydrocephalus.This volume brings together clinical and basic scientists from all over the world. Their expertise in the understanding of brain edema and shifts in brain water compartments has led to a further significant step in our understanding of those diseases characterized by brain edema. This book has also drawn on the expertise of the International Advisory Board of the Brain Edema Society, who have carefully summarized each section, thus providing an easy-to-read summary of the latest advances in each subject. The book is therefore much more than a collection of papers: it represents a critical appraisal and puts each paper into modern scientific context.The greatest advances have come from the rapid development of modern imaging techniques, especially with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Imaging can now produce "water maps” and "metabolic profiles” that bring brain metabolism and water content right into every clinic with access to MRI.This book provides the background knowledge to understand these pathophysiological changes. ... Read more

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Brain edema is a simple phenomenon - an abnormal increase of brain tissue volume by the increase of brain tissue water content. However the etiology is not simple and relating to a wide variety of neurological disorders including ischemia, trauma, tumor, hemorrhage and hydrocephalus. It is still a major cause of death in the neurological/neurosurgical ward. This volume is an up-to-date report on progress in brain edema research, diagnosis and treatment, including papers presented at the 12th International Symposium on Brain Edema and Brain Tissue Injury in 2002. Major topics include molecular biology and blood-brain barrier disorders, ischemic and traumatic brain edema, imaging and diagnosis of brain edema, treatment and radiation effect. Various papers in the rapidly growing fields of neuroimaging and molecular medicine are also included. ... Read more

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This book is a compilation of papers presented at the Eighth International Symposium on Brain Edema, held from June 17-20, 1990, in Bern, Switzerland. The Symposium explored aspects from clinical medicine as well as basic science. Clinicians and scientists from many fields of neuroscience contributed to the state-of-the art presentations and discussions. The papers are grouped for the reader's convenience. Besides chapters on pathophysiology, the papers focus on the major disease processes associated with brain edema: tumors, trauma, ischemia, hydrocephalus, hypertension, infection, pseudotumor cerebri, etc. Thus a coherent presentation is given of the neuropathology, pathophysiology including cellular and molecular phenomena, clinical findings, in vivo diagnosis with MRI as well as therapeutic aspects of a given entity. A major issue was the role of biochemical active mediator substances in opening the blood brain barrier and the development of edema. Methods of their specific inhibition may become the most important and effective therapeutic interventions in the future. The editors, authors and Springer-Verlag have made a great effort to publish this volume - the eighth in the series - within six months after the Symposium. Thus, the volume reflects an up-to-date knowledge of the disease and the possible modes of treatment as well as new advances in innovative research. The book provides important information for all those who are clinically or scientifically involved with this disease. ... Read more

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This volume is a selection of papers presented at theTenth International Symposium on Brain Edema. As in previous volumes,brain edema and disturbances of metabolism arising from acute insultsof any etiology, are the central issues of research. The supportiverole of biochemically activated mediators, changes in blood-brainbarrier, spread of the edema process, always elicit great scientificas well as clinical interest. Therapeutic interventions can only beeffectively directed to these problems once the understanding of theunderlying biochemical disturbances, disturbances in cerebralperfusion and parallel events, are mastered. This volume presents acomprehensive survey of the present state of the art and gives thedirections for further research. ... Read more

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This volume deals with (a) the blood-parenchymal cell border under normal and pathological conditions causing brain edema, (b) neuron-glial interactions and their disturbances in tissue damage, (c) formation, propagation and resolution of brain edema, and finally (d) treatment of vasogenic and cytotoxic brain edema. In the basic science approaches emphasis is given to newly discovered molecules, such as vascular endothelial growth factor, which might control permeability of the blood-brain barrier, e.g. in brain tumors. The complex issue of mediator compounds of secondary brain damage is further developed as to its manifold involvement. ... Read more

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Major chapters: Water and Solute Exchanges in the Central Nervous System, Experimental Brain Edemas, Pathophysiology of Human Brain Edema, Clinical Diagnosis of Cerebral Edema, Treatment, Bibliography, Index ... Read more

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