- Unique, case-based title
- Covers the topic in a novel, easy-to-read manner using a question-answer based method
- Offering a wide range of insightful clinical pearls
This 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 Contents- Cases
- 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)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)
