Headache in Children and Adolescents: A Case-Based Approach

ISBN-13: 9783319286266 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 220 str.

Ishaq Abu Arafeh; Aynur Ozge

Opis

It covers many aspects and causes of headache disorders in children and adolescents using case studies to illustrate important points in history, examination, diagnosis, choice of management approach, therapy selection, and communication of the most helpful advice to the child and parents.

Recenzje

Selected as "Highly Commended" in Neurology at BMA Medical Book Awards for 2017.

"The main strength of this book is its structure and its approach based on clinical cases. These characteristics make it a valuable teaching tool addressed to a various audience, from trainees to consultants in the context of paediatrics." (BMA Medical Book Awards, September, 2017)

Spis treści

Introduction.- A Child with Infrequent Attacks of Migraine without Aura.- A Child with Frequent Attacks of Migraine without Aura.- A Child with Chronic Migraine without Aura.- A Child with Infrequent Attacks of Migraine with Aura.- An Adolescent with Frequent Attacks of Migraine with Aura.- A Child with Migraine with Intense Visual Aura/“Alice in Wonderland Syndrome”.- A Child with Hemiplegic Migraine.- A Child with Migraine with Brainstem Aura or Basilar-Type Migraine.- A Child with Infrequent Episodic Tension-Type Headache.- A Child with Frequent Episodic Tension-Type Headache.- A Child with Chronic Tension-Type Headache.- Cases of Cluster Headache.- A Child with “Paroxysmal Hemicrania”.- A Child with Hemicrania Continua.- A Child with Stabbing Headaches.- A Child with Mixed Types of Headache: Tension-Type Headache and Migraine.- An Adolescent with Chronic Daily Headache.- A Child with Headache Attributed to Intracranial Neoplasm.- A Child with Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension.- A Child with Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension.- A Child with Migraine and Chiari Malformation Type 1.- A Child with Sinusitis and Headache.- A Child with Headache and Seizures.- Benign Paroxsymal Vertigo Of Childhood.- A Child with Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome.- A Child with Benign Paroxysmal Torticollis.- A Child with Abdominal Migraine.- A Child with Headache and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.- A Child with Medication Overuse Headache.- A Child with Thunderclap Headache.- A Child with Trigeminal Neuralgia.- A Child with Headache and Depression.- A Child with Headache and Anxiety Disorder Including School Refusal.- A Child with Headache and Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder.- A Child with Headache and Substance Abuse.- A Child with Chronic Posttraumatic Headache.- Appendix 1.- Glossary.- Appendix 2.- Headache Diary of Children and Adolescents.

O autorze

Ishaq Abu-Arafeh MBBS, MD, MRCP, FRCPCH is Consultant in Paediatrics and Paediatric Neurology at the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow and Forth Valley Royal Hospital, Larbert, UK. He has a major research interest in headache in children and adolescents. He is the chairman, Child and Adolescent Standing Committee, International Headache Society, President of the Scottish Paediatric Society, Co-Chair, Scottish Paediatric Surveillance Unit and Past Chairman, Paediatric committee, British Association for the Study of Headache. He is a member of the working group – International Classification of Headache Disorders, Medical Advisor, Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome Association UK, a member of the development group and later the steering group of the British Paediatric Neurology Association's Children Headache Teaching Course and Editor, “Childhood Headache”; First (2002) and second edition (2013). He is the author and co-author of over 40 peer reviewed scholarly articles and over 10 book chapters.

Aynur Özge is Professor of Neurology, Algology and Clinical Neurophysiology, at the, Mersin University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Mersin, Turkey. She is the chief of the headache outpatient department both for adults and children and adolescents, in the same department. She is the founder and coordinator of the Turkish Headache Database Project. She is a member of the Special Interest Group of Childhood and Adolescent Headache of the International Headache Society. She is also an active member of the Turkish Headache Society and Algology Society. 

Blurb

This book assists appropriate headache assessment and decision-making in pediatrics. It covers many aspects and causes of headache disorders in children and adolescents using case studies to illustrate important points in history, examination, diagnosis, choice of management approach, therapy selection, and communication of the most helpful advice to the child and parents.  

Case studies have been taken from real clinical practice and presented in a consistent style. They are discussed by the authors to highlight important points in history, important positive and negative points in examination, the diagnosis, and full analysis and justification of treatment options.    

Headache in Children and Adolescents: A Case-Based Approach is an ideal reference for primary care physicians, paediatricians, neurologists and paediatric neurologists in their daily practice, in their consulting rooms and wards.