Encephalitis: Diagnosis and Treatment

ISBN-13: 9780849340314 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 360 str.

John Halperin; Halperin Halperin; John Halperin

Opis

Inflammation of the brain, usually brought on by a viral infection, encephalitis currently poses a grave threat to patients around the world. With the migration of West Nile virus into North America, there is a greater awareness and corresponding need to understand, diagnose, and manage this illness. In Encephalitis: Diagnosis and Treatment, experts discuss advances in diagnostic tools, as well as therapeutic approaches that allow clinicians to better recognize and treat afflicted patients. Individual chapters address the principal infectious and non-infectious causes of brain inflammation, including paraneoplastic encephalitides-an apparent autoimmune process in patients with malignancies-as well as acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a post-infectious disorder. The book addresses etiology, epidemiology, and specific issues in diagnosis, pathology, and treatment, including various laboratory methodologies, pathologic changes seen in the different disorders, and diagnosis and management of the seizures that occur quite frequently in these disorders. With contributions from a group of international experts, the book provides a perspective on this disorder that is both broad and in-depth.

Spis treści

Clinical Approach in Encephalitis; Burke A. Cunha and John J. Halperin
Encephalitis, Encephalopathy, and Epilepsy; Jeffrey M. Politsky
Neuropathology of Encephalitis; Stefanie H. Freeman and E. Tessa Hedley-Whyte
Molecular and Serologic Methods for Diagnosis of Encephalitis; Eric D. Spitzer, Silvia G. Spitzer, and Marc G. Golightly
Critical Care Management of Encephalitis; Eelco F. M. Wijdicks
Viral Encephalitis—Background, Arboviruses, and Enteroviruses; John J. Halperin
West Nile Virus; Deborah S. Asnis and Robert S. Crupi
Tick-Borne Encephalitis; John J. Halperin
Herpesvirus Encephalitis; Nicholas L. King and Karen L. Roos
Rabies; John J. Halperin
HIV-Associated Brain Disease; David Hirschwerk
Spirochetal Infections of the Nervous System; John J. Halperin
Encephalitis Due to Parasites; Oscar H. Del Brutto
Neurobrucellosis; Guillermo H Giambartolomei, Jorge C. Wallach, and Pablo C. Baldi
Listeria Infections and the Central Nervous System; Bruce E. Hirsch
Tuberculosis of the Central Nervous System; Juan Carlos Garcia-Monco
Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis; Anita L. Belman
Paraneoplastic and Related Forms of Encephalitis; John J. Halperin and Jeffrey M. Politsky
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O autorze

John Halperin