Puzzling Cases of Epilepsy
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
Av Dieter Schmidt, Steven C. Schachter, Berlin) Schmidt, Dieter (Epilepsy Research Group, CIMIT) Schachter, Steven C. (Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Chief Academic Officer, MD Schachter, Steven C.
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- Presents unique and challenging case vignettes in epilepsy contributed by eminent physicians in the field
- Provides practicing physicians with examples of how baffling cases were handled and solved
- A new section provides a translational perspective, with basic scientists discussing the potential mechanisms underlying original clinical observations, and clinical scientists discussing the clinical implications of experiments in the epilepsy laboratory
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2008-10-14
- Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
- Vikt720 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor544
- Upplaga2
- FörlagElsevier Science
- ISBN9780123740052
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- Preface to the second editionList of Contributors Part I Diagnostic Puzzles and Uncertainties1. A Young Woman with Mouth Jerking Provoked by Reading2. Two Adult Patients with Infantile Spasms3. An Infant with Partial Seizures and Infantile Spasms4. Epilepsia Partialis Continua versus Non-Epileptic Seizures5. Panic Attacks in a Woman with Frontal Lobe Epilepsy6. Frequent Night Terrors7. Genetic (Generalized) Epilepsy with Febrile Seizures Plus8. A Visit to the Borderland of Neurology and Psychiatry9. A Case of Complex Partial Status Epilepticus10. Late-Onset Myoclonic Seizures in Down’s Syndrome11. Fainting, Fear, and Pallor in a 22-Month-Old GirlPart II Intriguing Causes and Circumstances12. Hyperactive Behavior and Attentional Deficit in a 7-Year-Old Boy with Myoclonic Jerks13. Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Loss of Episodic Memory, and Depression in a 32-Year-Old Woman14. Epileptic “ Dreamy States in a Young Man15. Nocturnal Seizures in a Man with Coronary Disease16. Non-convulsive Status Epilepticus and Frontal Lobe Seizures in a Patient with a Chromosome Abnormality17. An Unusual Cause of Nocturnal Attacks18. Myoclonic Jerks in a Computer Specialist19. Their Previous Physicians had Told Them that They Should not Become Pregnant Because They have Epilepsy20. Status Epilepticus after a Long Day of White-Water Rafting in the Grand Canyon21. A Farmer Who Watched His Own Seizures22. The Borderland of Neurology and Cardiology23. A Man with Shoulder Twitching24. The Girl with Visual Seizures Who wasn’t Seeing Things – Transient Blindness in a Young Girl25. A Young Man with Noise-Induced Partial Seizures26. Non-convulsive Status Epilepticus in a Patient with Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy27. Pseudohypoglycemia Manifesting as Complex Partial Seizures in a Patient with Type III Glycogen Storage DiseasePart III Surprising Turns and Twists28. Recurrent Amnestic Episodes in a 62-Year-Old Diabetic Patient29. Attacks of Nausea and Palpitations in a Woman with Epilepsy30. Absence Status Epilepticus in a 60-Year-Old Woman31. Hemiplegia in a 76-Year-Old Woman with Status Epilepticus32. Persistence Pays Off33. Drugs Did Not Work in a Little Girl with Absence Seizures34. “ Alternative Therapy for Partial Epilepsy – with a Twist35. A 19-Year-Old Man with Epilepsy, Aphasia, and Hemangioma of the Cranial Vault36. Severe Psychiatric Disorder in an 8-Year-Old Boy with Myoclonic–Astatic Seizures37. A Girl with Two Epilepsy Syndromes38. The Obvious Cause of Seizures May Not Be the Underlying Cause39. Absence Seizures in an Adult40. A Case Solved by Seizures During Sleep41. Alternative Psychosis in an Adolescent Girl?42. Exacerbation of Seizures in a Young Woman43. Genetic Counseling in a Woman with a Family History of Refractory Myoclonic Epilepsy44. “ Funny Jerks Run in the Family45. Side Effects That Imitate Seizures46. Epilepsy, Migraine, and Cerebral Calcifi cations47. An Unusual Application of Epilepsy Surgery48. All is Not What it Seems49. A Patient Whose Epilepsy Diagnosis Changed Three Times Over 20 Years50. If You Don’t Succeed, Investigate51. Should He or Shouldn’t He? Is It Reasonable to Prescribe Carbamazepine after Lamotrigineinduced Stevens–Johnson Syndrome?52. The Value of Repeating Video–EEG Monitoring and the Importance of Concomitant ECG Tracings in the Evaluation of Changes in Seizure SemiologyPART IV Unforeseen Complications and Problems53. A 35-Year-Old Man with Poor Surgical Outcome after Temporal Lobe Surgery54. When More is Less55. Change of Antiepileptic Drug Treatment for Fear of Side Effects in a 45-Year-Old Seizure-Free Patient56. Personality and Mood Changes in a Teenager57. Monitoring Patients May Be More Important Than Their Laboratory Tests58 Depression in a Student with Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy59. Osteomalacia in a Patient Treated with Multiple Anticonvulsants60. Parkinsonism and Cognitive Decline in a 64-Year-Old Woman with Epilepsy61. Problems in Managing Epilepsy during and after Pregnancy62. Status Epilepticus in a Heavy Snorer63. A Boy with Epilepsy and Allergic Rhinitis64. Seizures and Behavior Disturbance in a Boy65. Abulia in a Seizure-Free Patient with Frontal Lobe Epilepsy66. The Continuing Place of Phenobarbital67. A Patient with Epilepsy Slips Down Some Attic Stairs68. Bilateral Hip Fractures in a 43-Year-Old Woman with Epilepsy69. Picking a Wrong Antiepileptic Drug for a 9-Year-Old Girl70. With Epilepsy You Never KnowPart V Unexpected Solutions71. When Antiepileptic Drugs Fail in an Infant with Seizures, Consider Vitamin B672. A 12-Year-Old Boy with Daily Clonic Seizures73. A Child with Attention-Defi cit Disorder, Autistic Features and Frequent Epileptiform EEG Discharges74. Complete Seizure Control in a 14-Year-Old Boy after Temporal Lobectomy Failed75. Ictal Crying in a 32-Year-Old Woman76. Healing Begins with Communicating the Diagnosis77. An Unusual Case of Seizures and Violence78. Attacks of Generalized Shaking without Postictal Confusion79. Lennox–Gastaut Syndrome with Good Outcome Associated with Perisylvian Polymicrogyria80. Temporal Lobe Resection in a Patient with Severe Psychiatric Problems81. An Open Mind Can Benefi t the Patient82. An Unexpected Lesson83. When Surgery Is Not Possible, All Hope Is Not Lost84. Sometimes Less Is More85. Unexpected Benefit from an Old Antiepileptic Drug86. Status Epilepticus Responsive to Intravenous Immunoglobulin87. Surgical Success in a Patient with Diffuse Brain Trauma88. Dietary Treatment of Seizures from a Hypothalamic Hamartoma89. Can the Behavioral and Cognitive Effects of AEDs Be Predicted?90. A Child with So-Called Nocturnal Paroxysmal Dystonia Whose Epilepsy Arose from Orbital Cortex91. The Night Mom Didn’t Come Back92. The EEG – Not the EEG Report – Makes the DifferencePart VI Where Clinical Knowledge and Preclinical Science Meet93. The Double-Hit Hypothesis: Is It Clinically Relevant?Comment: The Double-Hit Hypothesis: Is It Clinically Relevant?94. Atypical Evolution in a Case of Benign Childhood Epilepsy with Centrotemporal SpikesComment 1: Does Kindling in Humans Occur? Comments Based on the Previous Case StudyComment 2: Does Kindling in Humans Occur?Comments Based on the Previous Case from a Preclinical Perspective95. Does Status Epilepticus Represent a Different Pathophysiology than Epilepsy? A Patient with Recurrent Status Epilepticus as the Single Manifestation of Her EpilepsyComment 1: Does Status Epilepticus Represent a Different Pathophysiology than Epilepsy? A Preclinical PerspectiveComment 2: Does Status Epilepticus Represent a Different Pathophysiology than Epilepsy? A Clinical Perspective96. Why Do Some Patients Seem to Develop Tolerance to AEDs? Development of Antiepileptic Drug Tolerance in a Patient with Temporal Lobe EpilepsyComment 1: Why Do Some Patients Seem to Develop Tolerance to AEDs? A Preclinical DiscussionComment 2: How Can We Detect the Development of Tolerance (Loss of Effect) to AEDs in Patients with Epilepsy? A Clinical Discussion97. Why Is There a Similar Ceiling Effect for the Efficacy of Most If Not All Antiepileptic Drugs in Adult Epilepsy? Reaching the Ceiling or Hitting the Wall?Comment 1: Why Is There a Similar Ceiling Effect for the Effi cacy of Most If Not All Antiepileptic Drugs in Adult Epilepsy? A Clinical PerspectiveComment 2: What Clinical Observations on the Epidemiology of Antiepileptic Drug Intractability Tell Us About the Mechanisms of Pharmacoresistance98. Difficult-to-Treat Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy in a Young WomanComment 1: Can We Predict a Drug’s Efficacy in a Specifi c Epilepsy Syndrome? A Preclinical DiscussionComment 2: Bridging the Gap between Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Practice99. Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures “ Redux Comment 1: Is There a Neurobiological Basis to Stress-induced, Non-epileptic Behaviors that Mimic Seizures?Comment 2: Evidence for a Neurobiological Basis for Non-epileptic Seizures100. Why Does VNS Take So Long to Work?Comment 1: Commentary: Why Does VNS Take So Long to Work? 101. If at First You Don’t SucceedComment 1: Why Antiepileptic Drugs Fail in Some Patients: A Preclinical PerspectiveComment 2: The Continuing Conundrum of Reversible Drug-resistant Epilepsy: A Clinical Perspective102. Why Do Some Patients Have Seizures After Brain Surgery While Others Do Not?Comment 1: Why Do Some Patients Have Seizures After Brain Surgery While Others Do Not? A Comment on the EvidenceComment 2: Why Do Some Patients Have Seizures After Brain Surgery While Others Do Not? A Clinical PerspectiveIndex
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