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
Table of 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
