Neuromuscular Disorders (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Tawil, Rabi; Venance, Shannon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A new addition to the Neurology in Practice series, Neuromuscular Disorders provides a clinical guide to the challenging diagnosis and management of neuromuscular disorders. As a part of the series, various feature boxes are highlighted throughout. "e;Tips and Tricks"e; give suggestions on how to improve outcomes through practical technique or patient questioning. In addition, "e;Caution"e; warning boxes supply helpful advice on how to avoid problems and 'Science Revisited' boxes offer quick reminders of the basic science principles necessary for understanding the presented concepts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119973317
• Artikelnr.: 37352334

Autorenporträt

Rabi N. Tawil, MD, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA. Shannon Venance, MD, PhD, FRCPCP, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributor List viii Acknowledgment x Series Foreword xi Preface xii 1
Neuromuscular Diseases: Approach to Clinical Diagnosis 1 Shannon Venance
and Rabi Tawil part i myopathies 2 Approach to Diseases of Muscle 9 Matthew
P. Wicklund 3 Inflammatory Myopathies 15 Steven A. Greenberg 4 Toxic
Myopathies 22 Steven K. Baker 5 Metabolic Myopathies 30 Ingrid Tein 6
Mitochondrial Myopathies 42 Michio Hirano, Valentina Emmanuele, and
Catarina M. Quinzii 7 Dystrophinopathies 51 Shannon L. Venance 8
Limb-Girdle Dystrophies 57 Michela Guglieri and Kate Bushby 9
Facioscapulohumeral Dystrophy 74 Constantine Farmakidis and Rabi Tawil 10
Myotonic Dystrophies 80 Nicholas Johnson and Chad R. Heatwole 11
Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy 87 Annie Dionne and Jean-Pierre Bouchard
12 Distal Myopathies 91 Bjarne Udd 13 Muscle Channelopathies 96 James Burge
and Michael G. Hanna 14 Congenital Myopathies 103 Nigel Clarke and Kathryn
North part ii disorders of the neuromuscular junction 15 Approach to
Diseases of the Neuromuscular Junction 113 Donald B. Sanders 16 Myasthenia
Gravis 118 Michael K. Hehir and Emma Ciafaloni 17 Botulism 126 Nikhil
Balakrishnan and Matthew N. Meriggioli 18 Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome
134 Michael W. Nicolle 19 Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes 142 Andrew G.
Engel part iii disorders of peripheral nerve 20 Approach to Diagnosis of
Peripheral Nerve Disease 153 James C. Cleland and Eric L. Logigian 21
Hereditary Motor Sensory Neuropathies (Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease) 162
Araya Puwanant and David N. Herrmann 22 Diabetic Neuropathies 170 Douglas
W. Zochodne 23 Toxic and Metabolic Neuropathies 177 Kurt Kimpinski 24 Acute
Infl ammatory Demyelinating Neuropathies and Variants 183 Mazen M.
Dimachkie and Richard J. Barohn 25 Chronic Immune-mediated Demyelinating
Polyneuropathies 190 Agnes Jani-Acsadi and Richard A. Lewis 26 Vasculitic
Neuropathies 198 W. David Arnold and John T. Kissel 27 Paraneoplastic
Neuropathies 204 Pariwat Thaisetthawatkul 28 Brachial and Lumbosacral
Plexopathies 210 Kristine M. Chapman and Amanda Sherwin part iv disorders
of motor neurons 29 Approach to Diseases of the Motor Neurons 223 Christen
Shoesmith 30 Spinal Muscular Atrophy 229 Jacqueline Montes and Petra
Kaufmann 31 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 236 Amy Chen and Hiroshi
Mitsumoto 32 Neuromuscular Disorders in the Intensive Care Unit 243 Maxwell
S. Damian and David Hilton-Jones Index 249 The colour plate section can be
found facing page 228.