Description
Book SynopsisThis book presents a case based approach to epilepsy management in both diagnostic challenges and treatment of complex cases. Cases reflect “real life” patient scenarios that practitioners encounter with up-to-date terminology and treatment approaches.
With 51 chapters, the book presents 51 unique, nuanced cases. Beginning with an initial presentation of a case history, the book opens with a basis for drawing in multiple aspects in the treatment of patients with epilepsy. Each chapter is organized into a clinical history, physical examination results, and ancillary testing to concentrate on differential diagnosis and focus on a definitive procedural approach to the final diagnosis. Subsequent information about the condition expands on the knowledge of the clinical features to a solution of common patient clinical scenarios as it affects people with epilepsy.
A comprehensive successor edition, Epilepsy Case Studies is an invaluable resource to clinicians ranging from those looking for a quick review of a topic present in the table of contents, to those crossing disciplines into medical areas where seizures are a symptom of disordered or dysfunctional brain.
Table of ContentsCases
Neonatal onset-general (ie spasms)
Neonatal onset-focal (hyperglycinemia)
Febrile seizures
Childhood onset-general (CAE)
Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
Childhood onset-focal (BCECTS)
Adolescent onset-general (JME)
Adolescent onset-focal (unknown cause)
Stigmatization Effect (social consequences)
Physical and mental well-being (sports and education)
Physical Comorbidity (CP)
Mental Comorbidity (ADD/Austistic spectrum disorder)
Etiologies of a foreign tissue lesion
Head trauma
Precipitating factors (triggers)
Single seizure (treatment focus)
Drug cessation (treatment focus)
Epilepsy-adult (treatment focus)
Epilepsy-elderly (treatment focus)
Generic AEDs
Side effects
Drug interactions
Birth control
Hormonal replacement
Pregnancy (treatment focus)
Epileptic panic attacks (diagnosis)
Anxiety-Depression
Violence (frontal lobe seizures)
PNEA-women (diagnosis focus)
PNEA-men (treatment focus)
Drug-resistant-neurologically normal (“skip” surgery)
Drug-resistant-neurologically normal but complex (invasive EEG)
Drug-resistant surgical failure (treatment focus)
Work and disability
Memory loss
Status epilepticus-convulsive
Status epilepticus-non-convulsive
SUDEP
Experimental therapies (treatment)
Alternative therapies (treatment)
