Full Description
This book is a practical and easily readable guide for neurologists, obstetricians, and primary care doctors treating female patients with neurological illness in their reproductive years.
Offers wide ranging coverage, including family planning and lactation
Presents information in approachable tables and summaries, focusing on high yield information useful for clinical consultation
Is written by a team of experts and edited by recognized leaders in the field
Contents
Notes on contributors, vi
Preface, ix
1 The history and examination, 1
Mary A. O'Neal
2 Hormonal and physiologic changes in pregnancy, 9
Janet F. R. Waters
3 Neuroimaging, 15
William T. Delfyett & David T. Fetzer
4 Neurologic complications in the obstetrical anesthesia patient, 70
Olajide Kowe & Jonathan H. Waters
5 Headaches during pregnancy and peripartum, 80
Huma Sheikh
6 Stroke in pregnancy and the puerperium, 92
Louis R. Caplan & Diogo C. Haussen
7 Selecting contraception for women treated with antiepileptic drugs, 110
Page B. Pennell & Anne Davis
8 Epilepsy, 122
Mark S. Yerby
9 Multiple sclerosis, 142
Aiden Haghikia & Kerstin Hellwig
10 Neuromuscular disorders, 153
Mohammad Kian Salajegheh & Kathy Chuang
11 Anterior and posterior pituitary disease and pregnancy, 167
Mark E. Molitch
12 Movement disorders and pregnancy, 179
Sathiji Nageshwaran, Marsha Smith, & Yvette M. Bordelon
13 Brain tumors and pregnancy, 191
Soma Sengupta & Elizabeth Gerstner
14 Neuro-ophthalmology in pregnancy, 201
Linda P. Kelly, Nancy J. Newman, & Val'erie Biousse
15 Neurological infections in pregnancy, 213
Shibani S. Mukerji & Jennifer L. Lyons
16 Neurosurgery, 234
Judith M. Wong, Anil Can, & Rose Du
17 Sleep disorders, 243
Sally Ibrahim & Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer
18 Neurourology of pregnancy, 258
Kimberly L. Ferrante, Victor W. Nitti, & Benjamin M. Brucker
Index, 269
