Emma Ciafaloni, Patrick Chinnery, Robert Griggs

Evaluation and Treatment of Myopathies

Ed. by Ciafaloni, Emma; Chinnery, Patrick F.; Griggs, Robert C.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Evaluation and Treatement of Myopathies provides all the essential information needed to assess the patient who has a muscle disease --- or who has symptoms that suggest a muscle disease. It provides practical advice on how to elicit symptoms and signs and then how to proceed to establish the diagnosis and institute appropriate treatment.

Produktdetails

• Contemporary Neurology Series .87
• Verlag: Oxford University Press; Oup Usa
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 178mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1190g
• ISBN-13: 9780199873937
• ISBN-10: 0199873933
• Artikelnr.: 40028972

Autorenporträt

Emma Ciafaloni, MD is the Associate Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Department of Neurology, Rochester, New York. Patrick F. Chinnery, FRCP, FMedSci is the Director at the Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Robert C. Griggs, MD is the Professor of Neurology, Medicine, Pediatrics, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, at the Center for Human Experimental Therapeutics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Department of Neurology, Rochester, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Structure and Function of Normal Muscle
2. Evaluation of the Patient with Myopathy
3. Genetic Evaluation of the Patient and Family
4. The Muscular Dystrophies
5. Myofibrillar Myopathies
6. Congenital Myopathies
7. Metabolic Myopathies
8. Mitochondrial Myopathies
9. Muscle Channelopathies
10. Inflammatory Myopathies
11. Myopathies of Systemic Disease
12. Muscle Pain and Fatigue
13. Prevention and Management of Systemic Complications of Myopathies