Manual of neurologic therapeutics
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Manual of neurologic therapeutics
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c1999
6th ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This pocket-size manual examines essential diagnostic criteria for each neurological disorder, and recommends approaches to treatment. There are charts to help in choosing the correct drug and dosage. This updated edition includes the pharmacologic agents recently approved for the treatment of neurologic disorders including: migraine, epileptic seizures and status epilepticus, acute stroke, Alzheimer disease and neurological manifestations of HIV. Also covered are new stereotactic radiosurgical approaches to brain tumour treatment, pallidotomy and various deep brain stimulation techniques for patients with Parkinson disease and diagnostic testing for genetically determined neurological diseases
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Neurologic symptoms: coma and other alterations in consciousness
- headache
- intellectual dysfunction - mental retardation and dementia
- dizziness
- backache
- epilepsy
- brain death and persistent vegetative state. Part 2 Neurologic diseases: infectious diseases
- neuropsychiatric disorders
- stroke
- neoplasms
- trauma - severe head injury, spinal cord injury
- demyelinating diseases
- toxic and metabolic disorders
- movement disorders
- diseases of nerve and muscle
- problems associated with chronic neurologic disease. Appendix - patient information guide.
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