Louis Caplan

Louis R. Caplan; Aishwarya Aggarwal

doi:10.1017/9781009030854.036

Chapter Thirty - Louis Caplan

from Some Key Physicians

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 December 2022

Louis R. Caplan and

Aishwarya Aggarwal

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Louis R. Caplan: Affiliation:
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre
Aishwarya Aggarwal: Affiliation:
John F. Kennedy Medical Center

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Call me Ishmael …

… and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

—Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

Although my contributions to the history of stroke are meager, I (Louis R. Caplan) decided to include my autobiography in this volume. I have functioned mostly like Ishmael: as a scribe, witness, simplifier, disseminator, and describer of the stroke-related ideas and events that have transpired during the last 50 years or so when the most changes occurred. My story includes a glimpse into medicine, neurology, and stroke as it changed during the twentieth century. It is an autobiographical sketch that has not appeared elsewhere. It seemed awkward to write the memoir in anything but the first person, although that is discouraged by publishers.

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Information: Stories of Stroke
Key Individuals and the Evolution of Ideas
, pp. 280 - 294

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009030854.036 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2022

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A longer account of the fellowship and Fisher’s career and contributions is found in Caplan, LR. C. Miller Fisher: Stroke in the 20th Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.Google Scholar

Bleich, HL. The computer as a consultant. New England Journal of Medicine 1971;284:141–147.Google Scholar

Mohr, J, Caplan, L, Melski, J, Duncan, G, Goldstein, R, Kistler, J, Pessin, M, Bleich, H. The Harvard Cooperative Stroke Registry: A prospective registry. Neurology 1978;28:754–762.Google Scholar

Caplan, LR. Occlusion of the vertebral or basilar artery: Follow-up analysis of some patients with benign outcome. Stroke 1979;10:277–282.Google Scholar Google Scholar

Caplan, L, Hier, D, D’Cruz, I. Cerebral embolism in the Michael Reese Stroke Registry. Stroke 1983;14:530–540.Google Scholar Google Scholar

The Stroke Data Bank published many reports, among which were Foulkes, MA, Wolf, PA, Priced, TR, Mohr, JP, Hier, DB. The Stroke Data Bank: Design, methods, and baseline characteristics. Stroke 1988;19:547–554.Google Scholar Google Scholar

Caplan, LR, Stein, RW. Stroke: A Clinical Approach. Boston: Butterworth, 1986.Google Scholar

Caplan, L, Banks, G, Thomas, C. Central nervous system complications of addiction of “T’s and Blues.” Neurology 1982;32:623–628.Google Scholar Google Scholar

Jones, HR, Caplan, L, Come, P, et al. Cerebral emboli of paradoxical origin. Annals of Neurology 1983;13:314–319.Google Scholar

Representative reports from the NEMC-P Circulation Registry include Caplan, LR, Chung, C-S, Wityk, RJ, et al. New England Medical Center posterior circulation stroke registry: I. Methods, data base, distribution of brain lesions, stroke mechanisms, and outcomes. Journal of Clinical Neurology 2005;1:14–30.Google Scholar Google Scholar Google Scholar Google Scholar

Representative descriptions and reviews of brain infarcts: Caplan, LR, DeWitt, LD, Pessin, MS, Gorelick, PB, Adelman, LS. Lateral thalamic infarcts. Archives of Neurology 1988;45:959–964.Google Scholar Google Scholar Google Scholar Google Scholar Google Scholar Google Scholar Google Scholar Google Scholar Google Scholar Google Scholar

The early investigations of thrombolytic therapy are reviewed in del Zoppo, GJ, Poeck, K, Pessin, MS, et al. Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator in acute thrombotic and embolic stroke. Annals of Neurology 1992;32:78–86.Google Scholar Google Scholar Google Scholar

Barbut, D, Caplan, LR. Brain complications of cardiac surgery. Current Problems in Cardiology 1997;22(9):449–480.Google Scholar Google Scholar Google Scholar

Savitz, SI, Dinsmore, J, Wu, J, Henderson, GV, Stieg, P, Caplan, L. Neurotransplantation of fetal porcine cells in patients with basal ganglia infarcts: A preliminary safety and feasibility study. Cerebrovascular Diseases 2005;20:101–107.Google Scholar Google Scholar

Caplan, LR. Posterior Circulation Disease: Clinical Findings, Diagnosis, and Management. Boston: Blackwell Scientific, 1996.Google Scholar Google Scholar

Caplan, L. Posterior circulation ischemia: Then, now, and tomorrow. The Thomas Willis Lecture – 2000. Stroke 2000;31:2011–2013.Google Scholar Google Scholar

Gorelick, P, Caplan, L, Hier, D, Patel, D, Parker, S. Racial differences in the distribution of anterior circulation occlusive cerebrovascular disease. Neurology 1984;34:54–59.Google Scholar Google Scholar Google Scholar Google Scholar

Caplan, L, Schoene, W. Clinical features of subcortical atherosclerotic encephalopathy (Binswanger disease). Neurology 1978;28:1206–1215.Google Scholar Google Scholar Google Scholar Google Scholar

Fisher, C.M. Basilar artery branch occlusion: A cause of pontine infarction. Neurology 1971;21:900–905.Google Scholar Google Scholar

Caplan, LR, Hennerici, M. (Hypothesis) Impaired clearance of emboli (washout) is an important link between hypoperfusion, embolism, and ischemic stroke. Archives of Neurology 1998;55:1475–1482.CrossRef Google Scholar

Caplan, LR. Cardiac encephalopathy. (Current Treatment Options in) Cardiovascular Medicine 2004;6:171–178.Google Scholar Google Scholar

Caplan, LR, Baquis, GD, Pessin, MS, et al. Dissection of the intracranial vertebral artery. Neurology 1988;38:867–877.Google Scholar Google Scholar Google Scholar Google Scholar Google Scholar

Hinchey, JA, Chaves, CJ, Appignani, B, Breen, JC, Pao, L, Wang, A, Pessin, MS, Lamy, C, Mas, J-L, Caplan, LR. A reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome. New England Journal of Medicine 1996;334:494–500.Google Scholar

Albers, G, Caplan, LR, Easton, JD, et al. Transient ischemic attack. Proposal for a new definition. New England Journal of Medicine 2002;347:1713–1716.Google Scholar Google Scholar Google Scholar Google Scholar

Editorial. TIAs: We need to return to the question, What is wrong with Mr. Jones? Neurology 1988;38:791–793;Google Scholar Google Scholar Google Scholar Google Scholar

Siderov, E, Feng, W, Caplan, LR. Stroke in pregnant and postpartum women. Expert Reviews in Cardiovascular Therapy 2011;9:1235–1247.Google Scholar Google Scholar Google Scholar

Caplan, L, Kleeman, F, Berg, S. Urinary retention probably secondary to herpes genitalis. New England Journal of Medicine 1977;297:920–921.Google Scholar Google Scholar

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