- Clinical-based on diagnostic approach
- Highlights pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies
- Investigates main diagnostic tools
This book is focused on a clinical-based diagnostic approach of autonomic dysfunctions, highlighting main diagnostic tools and pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies available nowadays.
The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is a subcomponent of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and dysfunction of one or more subdivisions of the ANS, when accompanying other diseases, is linked to a worse prognosis of the latter. In some circumstances or when severe, dysfunction of ANS itself results in symptoms and disability. A myriad of factors can cause autonomic dysfunction and more than one can concur even in the same patient; due to the expansive nature of the ANS, patients can be affected by a wide range of conditions.
Each chapter is characterized by a similar structure and is devoted to a different dysfunction. For each pathology, the book offers the essential information on mechanisms of action, treatments and outcomes.
Written by experts in the research of these disorders, the volume addresses primarily Neurologists, but will be a useful tool also for Gastroenterologists, Ophthalmologists, Urologists, Cardiologists and Internal medicine specialists.
Table of Contents- Introductive Chapter of the Autonomic Nervous System
- Orthostatic Hypotension
- Autonomic Dysfunction in Hypertension
- Autonomic Nervous System and Cardiac Arrhythmias
- Autonomic Nervous System and Cerebrovascular Diseases
- Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke
- Primary Headaches and the Autonomic Nervous System
- Gastrointestinal Autonomic Disorders
- Autonomic Dysfunction in Sleep Disorders
- Autonomic Dysfunctions in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
- Autonomic Involvement in Childhood Epilepsy
- Pathophysiology, Clinical Presentation and Management of Neurogenic Bladder
- Rehabilitation of Neurogenic Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunctions
- Erectile Dysfunction
- Autonomic Control of Breathing in Health and Disease
- Neuropathic Pain
- Pupillary and Lacrimation Alterations
- Sweating Disorders
- Autonomic Dysfunction Due to Toxic Agents and Drugs
