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Main description:
Seizures are frightening events. They frighten the patients who experience them; they frighten those who witness them; they also frighten many physicians who have to deal with them. Most individuals with seizures present to family physicians or to emergency room physicians. However, despite the fact that seizures are among the most common neurological conditions, most general practitioners, family practice specialists, and intemists do not see large numbers of patients with seizures. Given the apoplectic appearance of generalized tonic clonic convulsions, it is not difficult to understand why they arouse such emotional responses in those that experience them, those that witness them, and those whose care is sought for them. Seizures are symptoms of something wrong with the brain. Many different kinds of perturbations in brain anatomy, chemistry, or physiology can produce seizures. For many individuals, seizures occur in the context of an acute illness and will not recur once that illness is treated. These individuals do not have epilepsy. They have transient disturbances in brain function attributable to systemic medical conditions. It is important to recognize these issues, because, first, the seizure may be the initial, or even only, manifestation of the underlying medical problem and this needs to be recognized.
Contents:
Definitions and Epidemiology
Norman Delanty
Pathophysiology of Acute Symptomatic Seizures
Carl J. Vaughan and Norman Delanty
Seizures in Acute Neurological Disorders
Peter B. Crino
Seizures in Multisystem Disease Affecting the Nervous System
Joerg-Patrick Stubgen
Seizures and Organ Failure
Jane Boggs
Seizures and Electrolyte Imbalance
Alvaro R. Gutierrez and Jack E. Riggs
Seizures and Endocrine Disorders
Cormac A. O'Donovan and Ramel A. Carlos
Seizures, Fever, and Systemic Infection
Kevin Murphy and Henry Fraimow
Medication-Associated Seizures
Paul A. Garcia and Brian K. Alldredge
Alcohol and Seizures
Gail D'Onofrio, Andrew S. Ulrich, and Niels K. Rathlev
Seizures and Illicit Drug Use
John C. M. Brust
Seizures Attributable to Environmental Toxins
Fernando Cendes
Seizures in Cancer Patients
Myrna R. Rosenfeld and Josep Dalmau
Seizures Associated with Hypoxic-Ischemic Cardiopulmonary Disorders
Muredach Reilly
Seizures, Hypertension, and Posterior Leukoencephalopathy
Norman Delanty and Carl J. Vaughan
Seizures Following Organ Transplantation
Jane Boggs
Seizures and Syncope
Suneet Mittal and Bruce B. Lerman
Seizures in the Tropics
Nimal Senanayake
Seizures in the ICU Patient
Michael M. Frucht and Thomas P. Bleck
Status Epilepticus in the Critically Ill
Michael C. Smith and Michele Del Signore
Anticonvulsants in Acute Medical Illness
Colin Roberts and Jacqueline A. French
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Publication date: November, 2010
Pages: 380
Weight: 728g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Neurology
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