Neuromuscular disorders / Anthony A. Amato, MD, Vice-Chairman, Department of Neurology, Chief, Neuromuscular Divbision, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, James A. Russell, DO, FAAN, Vice Chairman, Department of Neurology, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Director, ALS Clinic, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Chairman, Ethics Center, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Clinical Professor of Neurology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
Edition:
Second edition.
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Education Medical,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
viii, 948 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Neuromuscular disorders (Amato) Preceded by (work)
Notes:
Preceded by: Neuromuscular disorders / [edited by] Anthony A. Amato, James A. Russell. c2008. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Approach to patients with neuromuscular disease -- Testing in neuromuscular disease -- Muscle and nerve histopathology -- Principles of immunomodulating treatment -- The rehabilitation of neuromuscular diseases / Sabrina Paganoni and Erik Ensrud -- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Hereditary spastic paraparesis -- Spinal muscular atrophies -- Other motor neuron disorders -- Disorders of motor nerve hyperactivity -- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and related disorders -- Other hereditary neuropathies -- Guillain-BarreĢ syndrome and related disorders -- Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy and related neuropathies -- Vasculitic neuropathies -- Neuropathies associated with systemic disease -- Neuropathies associated with infections -- Neuropathies related to nutritional deficiencies -- Neuropathies associated with malignancy -- Toxic neuropathies -- Neuropathies associated with endocrinopathies -- Idiopathic polyneuropathy -- Cervical and thoracic radiculopathies, brachial plexopathies, and mononeuropathies of the arm -- Focal neuropathies of the lower extremities : radiculopathies, plexopathies, and mononeuropathies -- Autoimmune myasthenia gravis -- Other disorders of neuromuscular transmission -- Muscular dystrophies -- Congenital myopathies -- Metabolic myopathies -- Mitochondrial disorders -- Myotonic dystrophies -- Nondystrophic myotonias and periodic paralysis -- Inflammatory myopathies -- Myopathies associated with systemic disease -- Toxic myopathies -- Neuromuscular mimics / Sabrina Paganoni and Erik Ensrud.
Summary:
This book offers a pragmatic approach in the evaluation and management of neuromuscular diseases.
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