Full Description
This book presents a case based approach to epilepsy management in both diagnostic challenges and treatment of complex cases. Cases reflect "real life" patient scenarios that practitioners encounter with up-to-date terminology and treatment approaches.
With 51 chapters, the book presents 51 unique, nuanced cases. Beginning with an initial presentation of a case history, the book opens with a basis for drawing in multiple aspects in the treatment of patients with epilepsy. Each chapter is organized into a clinical history, physical examination results, and ancillary testing to concentrate on differential diagnosis and focus on a definitive procedural approach to the final diagnosis. Subsequent information about the condition expands on the knowledge of the clinical features to a solution of common patient clinical scenarios as it affects people with epilepsy.
A comprehensive successor edition, Epilepsy Case Studies is an invaluable resource to clinicians ranging from those looking for a quick review of a topic present in the table of contents, to those crossing disciplines into medical areas where seizures are a symptom of disordered or dysfunctional brain.
Contents
Chapter 1. Epileptic Spasms.- Chapter 2. Neonatal Seizures and Metabolic Epilepsies.- Chapter 3. Febrile Seizures.- Chapter 4. Childhood Absence Epilepsy.- Chapter 5. Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome.- Chapter 6. Self-limited epilepsies in childhood.- Chapter 7. Genetics and Epilepsy.-Chapter 8. Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy.- Chapter 9. Autonomic seizures and Panayiotopoulos syndrome.- Chapter 10. Genetic Epilepsy with Febrile Seizures Plus.- Chapter 11. Progressive Myoclonus Epilepsy.- Chapter 12. Autoimmune Epilepsies.- Chapter 13. Electroclinical Localization and Treatment.- Chapter 14. Brain Tumor-Related Epilepsy.- Chapter 15. Head trauma and Seizures.- Chapter 16. First Seizure and Epilepsy.- Chapter 17. Starting Antiseizure Medication.- Chapter 18. Stopping Antiseizure Medication.- Chapter 19. Classification of Epilepsy.- Chapter 20. Seizures in the Intensive Care Unit.- Chapter 21. Epilepsy in Older Adults.- Chapter 22. Seizures and Renal/Liver Failure.- Chapter 23. Antiseizure Drugs and Seizure Aggravation.- Chapter 24. Driving and Epilepsy.- Chapter 25. Frontal Lobe Epilepsy.- Chapter 26. Pregnancy and Epilepsy.- Chapter 27. Epilepsy in Women.- Chapter 28. Convulsive Syncope.- Chapter 29. Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures.- Chapter 30. Neuropsychological Assessment in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Surgery.- Chapter 31. Reflex epilepsies.- Chapter 32. Infrequent Seizures (Oligoepilepsy).- Chapter 33. Epilepsy, Mood and Disability.- Chapter 34. Neuroimaging and Epilepsy.- Chapter 35. Stroke and Epilepsy.- Chapter 36. Status Epilepticus Convulsive.- Chapter 37. Comorbidities and Seizures: Bone Health.- Chapter 38. SUDEP and cardiac arrhythmia.- Chapter 39. Investigational Devices for Epilepsy.- Chapter 40. Alternative Medicines in Epilepsy.- Chapter 41. Surgical Candidate(skip).- Chapter 42. Epilepsy Surgery: Intracranial EEG (iEEG) Candidate.- Chapter 43. Seizures in the Operating Room.- Chapter 44. Minimally Invasive Surgery.- Chapter 45. Disconnection Surgery.- Chapter 46. VNS and Epilepsy.- Chapter 47. Intracranial Stimulation and Epilepsy.- Chapter 48. Ketogenic Diet.- Chapter 49. Complications from Seizures During Video EEG Monitoring.- Chapter 50. Psychosocial Aspects and Stigma.- Chapter 51. Eloquent Cortex Resection in Rasmussen's Syndrome.
