Louis Caplan, MD, on Lacunar Stroke, Penetrating Artery Disease

In this podcast, Louis Caplan, MD, from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center talks about detecting penetrating artery disease, prevention of events, and the antiplatelet agents used to treat such events.

Additional Resources:

1. Caplan LR, ed. Caplan's Stroke: A Clinical Approach. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press; 2016. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316095805. 
2. Caplan LR, van Gijn J, eds. Stroke Syndromes. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press; 2012. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139093286.
3. Regenhaut RW, Das AS, Lo EH, Caplan LR. Advances in understanding the pathophysiology of lacunar stroke: a review. JAMA Neurol. 2018;75(10):1273-1281. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2018.1073.

Louis R. Caplan, MD, is a senior member of the Division of Cerebrovascular Disease at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, and the founder of the Harvard Stroke Registry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.