Description
Book SynopsisThis book is focused on a clinical-based diagnostic approach of autonomic dysfunctions, highlighting main diagnostic tools and pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies available nowadays.
The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is a subcomponent of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and dysfunction of one or more subdivisions of the ANS, when accompanying other diseases, is linked to a worse prognosis of the latter. In some circumstances or when severe, dysfunction of ANS itself results in symptoms and disability. A myriad of factors can cause autonomic dysfunction and more than one can concur even in the same patient; due to the expansive nature of the ANS, patients can be affected by a wide range of conditions.
Each chapter is characterized by a similar structure and is devoted to a different dysfunction. For each pathology, the book offers the essential information on mechanisms of action, treatments and outcomes.
Written by experts in the research of these disorders, the volume addresses primarily Neurologists, but will be a useful tool also for Gastroenterologists, Ophthalmologists, Urologists, Cardiologists and Internal medicine specialists.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction and Central Autonomic Network (P. Cortelli)
Chapter 2. Orthostatic hypotension (P. Guaraldi, G. Calandra Bonaura)
Chapter 3. Autonomic dysfunction in hypertension (G. Parati et al.)
Chapter 4. Migraine (P. Cortelli et al.)
Chapter 5. Cardiac arrhythmias (R. Antonicelli et al.)
Chapter 6. Stroke and cerebrovascular diseases (G. Micieli et al.)
Chapter 7. Gastro-intestinal autonomic disorders (A. Bassi, et al.)
Chapter 8. Autonomic changes in sleep disorders (M. Bozzali et al.)
Chapter 9. Temporal lobe epilepsy (M. Hilz)
Chapter 10. Neurologic bladder (G. Pelliccioni et al.)
Chapter 11. Erectile dysfunction (M.Hilz et al.)
Chapter 12. Neuropathic pain (C. Rocchi et al.)
Chapter 13. Pupillary and lacrimation changes (M. Romano et al.)
Chapter 14. Sweating Disorders (R. Di Leo, C. Rocchi)
Chapter 15. Iatrogenic and non-iatrogenic neurotoxicology (C.A. Locatelli et al.)
