- Focuses on various neuroinflammatory diseases, including multiple sclerosis, immune-mediated neurological diseases and autoimmune neurological disease
- Reviews pathophysiology and treatment approaches
- Provides neurologists and trainees a comprehensive resource to this rapidly growing field
This book provides a clinical focus on neuroinflammatory diseases as well as a review in pathophysiology and treatment approaches.
Organized into six parts, the book begins with a basic review of the immune system and concepts for learning and treating neuroimmune conditions. The next four sections cover specific subfields of neuroimmunology and autoimmune neurology - the clinical and diagnostic features of multiple sclerosis, other autoimmune conditions of the central nervous system, autoimmune conditions of the peripheral nervous system, and systemic autoimmune conditions that affect the nervous system. To conclude, Section six discusses various clinical approaches to specific presentations in neuroimmunology, including pediatric demyelinating diseases.
These sections provide practical clinical information to improve the reader’s knowledge in this complex field. The chapters are written by world renown authors with extensive knowledge to help provide up to date information. The full scope of autoimmune neurology is discussed, which is a unique feature of this book.
Neuroimmunology serves as a resource for those in training including residents and fellows to provide clear clinical reasoning and background in a rapidly advancing field.
Table of Contents- Introduction to Neuroimmunology: What the Cerebrospinal Fluid Teaches Us About Diseases of the Central Nervous System
- Antibody Detection Methods for Neural Autoantibodies and Introduction to Antibody Pathogenesis
- Neuroimaging Modalities in Neuroimmunology
- Clinical Trial Design in NeuroimmunologyConcepts of Immune Therapy and Disease Management
- Evolution of the Diagnostic Criteria in Multiple Sclerosis
- Natural History of Multiple Sclerosis
- Pathology of Multiple Sclerosis
- Immunology of Multiple Sclerosis
- Epidemiology of Multiple Sclerosis and Environmental Risk Factors
- The Genetics of Multiple Sclerosis
- Autoimmune and Paraneoplastic Encephalitis
- Autoimmune Epilepsy
- Autoimmune and Paraneoplastic Movement Disorders
- Autoimmune Demyelinating Syndromes: Aquaporin-4-IgG-positive NMOSD and MOG - IgG Associated Disorder
- Paraneoplastic Neurological Syndromes
- Treatment Approaches in Autoimmune Neurology: Focus on Autoimmune Encephalitis with Neuronal Cell Surface Antibodies
- Acute and Chronic Immune Neuropathies and Radiculopathies
- Autoimmune Diseases of the Neuromuscular Junction: Myasthenia Gravis and Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome
- Immune and Inflammatory Myopathies
- Autoimmune Autonomic Disorders
- Neurorheumatology
- Neurosarcoidosis
- Central Nervous System Vasculitis
- Infections, Immunodeficiency, and Complications of Immunomodulatory Therapies in Neuroimmunology
- Oncological Mimics in Inflammatory CNS Disease
- Clinical Approach to Autoimmune Myelitis and Myelopathy
- Clinical Approach to Autoimmune and Inflammatory Ophthalmologic Disease
- Clinical Approach to Pediatric Demyelinating Disease
- Clinical Approach to Stiff Person Syndrome
- Use of Disease-Modifying Therapies in Multiple Sclerosis
- Symptom Management in Multiple Sclerosis
