HANDBOOK OF EPILEPSY TREATMENT
	Autor: Simon Shorvon
	Dr. Simon Shorvon, University College London, Department of Clinical Neurology, London DESCRIPCION: The Handbook of Epilepsy Treatment: forms, causes and therapy in children and adults provides a comprehensive coverage of medical and surgical therapy. It includes sections on all current antiepileptic drugs, drug choice, pharmacokinetics, the various surgical approaches, complementary and alternative therapies, emergency treatment of seizures and of status epilepticus, the treatment of psychiatric disorders associated with epilepsy and genetic counselling. There are practical guides for the treatment of patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy, chronic epilepsy and epilepsy in remission, and sections on therapy in different epilepsy types and syndromes and in different patient groups such as children, women and elderly. The book also has also an opening chapter on the clinical forms and causes of epilepsy, and throughout the text new information is incorporated particularly from the rapidly advancing fields of clinical genetics and clinical pharmacology. The Handbook of Epilepsy Treatment: forms, causes and therapy in children and adults aids the doctor in the day to day management of the patient with epilepsy. It provides enough detail to be useful as a reference and yet gives information in an easy-to-use format for busy clinical practice. This concise and readable book will be an invaluable guide for all doctors,regardless of speciality, who are treating patients with epilepsy. A new pharmacopoeia is appended for quick reference and there are approximately 200 tables/figures/summary tables to assist clarity CONTENIDO: The clinical forms and causes of epilepsy, Epilepsy, The ILEA classification of seizure type, ILEA classification of the epilepsies and epilepsy syndromes, Classification on partial seizures by anatomical site of seizure onset, The age-related epilepsy syndromes, The causes of epilepsy, Epilepsy due to genetic or developmental causes, Epilepsy due to an acquired causes, Seizure precipitants, The reflex epilepsies, Acute symptomatic seizures 2: The principles of drug treatment, Why treat epilepsy?, Pharmacokinetic principles of antiepileptic drug treatment, Choice of drugs for different seizure types, Treatment of specific epilepsy syndromes, Principles of treatment of newly diagnosed patients, Principles of treatment of patients with established active epilepsy, Treatment of patients with epilepsy in remission, Treatment of epilepsy in children, The treatment of epilepsy in the elderly, The treatment of epilepsy in women, The treatment of psychiatric disorders in epilepsy, Complementary and alternative therapy in epilepsy, Genetic counselling in epilepsy 3: The antiepileptic drugs, Carbamazepine, Clobazam, Clonazepam, Ethosuximide, Gabapentin, Lamotrigine, Levetiracetam, Oxcarbazepine, Phenobarbital, Phenytoin, Pregabalin, Primidone, Tiagabine, Topiramate, Valproate, Vigabatrin, Zonisamide, Other drugs used in the treatment of epilepsy: Acetazolamide, Benzodiazepines, Diazepam, Clorazepate, Nitrazepam, Corticosteroids and adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), Felbamate, Mesuximide, Piracetam, Rufinamide 4: The emergency treatment of epilepsy, The immediate management of a seizure, Status epilepticus, Antiepileptic drugs used in status epilepticus 5: The surgical treatment of epilepsy Introduction, Pre-surgical assessmentageneral points, Surgery in epilepsy arising in the mesial temporal lobe, Surgery in epilepsy arising in extra-temporal regions and in the temporal neocortex, Surgery where no lesion is apparent on neuroimaging, Hemispherectomy, hemispherotomy and other large resections, Corpus callosectomy (corpus callosum section, corpus callosotomy, Multiple subpial transaction, Vagus nerve stimulation, Other functional surgical procedures, The organization of epilepsy surgery care: the epilepsy surgery centre, Pharmacopoeia ISBN:  140-513-134-9 Fecha de edición:  2005 Nº de páginas:  320 Formato:  27.6 x 21.9 cm Encuadernación: