V knige s sovremennykh pozitsiy osveshcheny diagnostika i kompleksnoe lechenie ostrogo ishemicheskogo insul'ta u patsientov, imeyushchikh gemodinamicheski znachimuyu stenoziruyushchuyu patologiyu ipsilateral'noy sonnoy arterii. V nastoyashchee vremya shiroko primenyaetsya khirurgicheskoe lechenie sonnykh arteriy v pervye nedeli ostroy tserebral'noy ishemii. "Zolotym standartom" yavlyaetsya karotidnaya endarterektomiya, provedenie kotoroy v rannie sroki ishemicheskogo insul'ta privodit k znachitel'nomu regressu nevrologicheskogo defitsita, sokrashcheniyu srokov reabilitatsii i uluchsheniyu kachestva zhizni patsientov. Kniga soderzhit poleznuyu informatsiyu dlya nevrologov, angiokhirurgov, vrachey obshchey praktiki, vrachey skoroy meditsinskoy pomoshchi i drugikh spetsialistov, deyatel'nost' kotorykh napravlena na organizatsiyu effektivnogo lecheniya bol'nykh s tserebral'nym infarktom.