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.

This book 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.

Neuromuscular Disorders 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.

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

Section I. Approach to Patients with Neuromuscular Disease

1. Clinical and Laboratory Approach to Patients
2. Electrodiagnositic Testing
3. Muscle and Nerve Histopathology

Section II. Specific Disorders

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

Index

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