Neuromuscular Disorders

Everything you need to know about neuromuscular disease-in one concise, full-color volume
Neuromuscular Disorders is comprehensive in scope, yet concise enough to serve as a valuable point-of-care guide for your day-to-day clinical practice. Grounded by numerous reference sources and enhanced by the experience of two seasoned clinicians, this text provides a pragmatic approach to the evaluation and management of neuromuscular disease. Here, in a single source, you'll get an insightful look at both nerve and muscle conditions, ranging from motor neuron diseases to neuropathies, neuromuscular junction disorders, and myopathies.

The book opens with the clinical and laboratory approach to patients with neuromuscular disease, covering electrodiagnostic testing, nerve conduction studies, and muscle and nerve histopathology. With an emphasis on effective diagnosis and treatment, the substance of the text examines the full spectrum of specific neuromuscular diseases, giving you the "big picture" of the discipline in a way that no other text can match.

FEATURES:

• Convenient coverage of both nerve, muscle and neuromuscular transmission disorders-both primary and secondary neuromuscular diseases
• Specific disease sections encompass the range of conditions likely to be encountered in clinical practice, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, radiculopathies and plexopathies, mononeuropathies, various polyneuropathies, toxic myopathies, and dozens more
• The very latest diagnosis and treatment recommendations and protocols based on the most recent clinical literature and research
• Well-illustrated with EMGs, histopathology, and clinical photos

CONTENTS
Neuromuscular & Peripheral Nerve Disorders
Section I. Approach to Patients with Neuromuscular Disease
Chapter 1. Clinical and Laboratory Approach to Patients
Chapter 2. Electrodiagnositic Testing
Chapter 3. Muscle and Nerve Histopathology
Section II. Specific Disorders
Chapter 4. Amyotrophic lateral Sclerosis and Related Disorders
Chapter 5. Hereditary Spastic Paraplegias
Chapter 6. Spinal Muscular Atrophies
Chapter 7. Poliomyelitis
Chapter 8. Disorders of Motor Hyperexcitability
Chapter 9. Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease and Related Disorders
Chapter 10. Miscellaneous Other Hereditary Neuropathies
Chapter 11. Guillain-Barre Syndrome and Related Disorders
Chapter 12. Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Neuropathy and Related Disorders
Chapter 13. Vasculitic Neuropathies
Chapter 14. Neuropathies Associated with Systemic Disease
Chapter 15. Neuropathies Associated with Infection
Chapter 16. Neuropathies Associated with Nutritional Deficiencies
Chapter 17. Neuropathies Associated with Malignancy
Chapter 18. Toxic Neuropathies
Chapter 19. Idiopathic Sensory or Sensorimotor Polyneuropathy
Chapter 20. Mononeuropathies
Chapter 21. Cervical Radiculopathies and Brachial Plexopathies
Chapter 22. Lumbosacral Radiculopathies and Plexopathies
Chapter 23. Neuromuscular Junction Disorders
Chapter 24. Muscular Dystrophies
Chapter 25. Congenital Myopathies
Chapter 26. Metabolic Myopathies
Chapter 27. Mitochondrial Myopathies
Chapter 28. Myotonic Dystrophy
Chapter 29. Non-Dystrophic Myotonias and Periodic Paralysis
Chapter 30. Inflammatory Myopathies
Chapter 31. Myopathies Associated with Systemic Disease
Chapter 32. Toxic Myopathies