Neurological Complications of Infectious Diseases

ISBN-13: 9783030560867 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021

Opis

This book offers a comprehensive review of the most common infectious diseases that affect the nervous system. Written by international experts, it provides a guide to clinicians for accurately diagnosing and treating these challenging syndromes. Organized into six sections, the book presents didactic, up-to-date information on the following topics relating to central nervous system (CNS) infections: diagnosis and evaluation of the patient, bacterial, viral, fungal and mycobacterial infections, disorders of the spinal cord, and a myriad of miscellaneous infections.  Chapters specifically reflect and look to resolve the common obstacles clinicians face in the field, such as having unknown etiologies on the majority of CNS infections, insensitive and slow microbiological techniques, an increasing number of immunosuppressed individuals with atypical presentations and pathogens, and a lack of standardized diagnostic algorithms. A complex yet accessible addition to the Current Clinical Neurology Series, Neurological Complications of Infectious Diseases invaluably examines a wide range of infections that have neurological complications and sequelae.

Spis treści

Section 1. Diagnosis and evaluation of the patient with a CNS infection.

Introduction 

Molecular diagnostics in CNS infections

Neuroimaging in CNS infections

Neurocritical care of the patient with a CNS infection

Section 2. Bacterial infections

Neurological complications of Infective Endocarditis

Neurological complications of otitis and sinusitis

Bacterial spinal infections: vertebral osteomyelitis, discitis, epidural abscesses 

Neurobrucellosis

Neurological complications of Syphilis

Section 3. Viral infections 

Neurological complications of HIV

Neurological complications of Herpes viruses

Arboviral neurological infections

Viral and autoimmune myelopathies

Section 4. Fungal and mycobacterial infections

Tuberculosis of the brain and spine

Fungal infections of the brain

 

Section 5. Parasitic infections of the brain.

Cerebral Malaria

Neurocysticercosis and other helminthic infections

CNS infections due to free-living and parasitic amoebas

CNS toxoplasmosis

Section 6. Miscellaneous neurological disorders.  

Tick-borne encephalitides

Infectious Neuropathies

Toxin mediated CNS infections: Botulism, Diphtheria & Tetanus

CNS Whipple’s

Prion diseases

Post-infectious encephalitis and myelitis

O autorze

Rodrigo Hasbun, MD MPH

Professor of Medicine

Medicine/Infectious Diseases

UT Health McGovern Medical School

6431 Fannin St, 2.112 MSB

Houston, TX 77030

 

Karen C. Bloch, MD MPH

Associate Professor

Medicine/Infectious Diseases

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

A-2200 Medical Center North

Nashville, TN 37232

Adarsh Bhimraj, MD

Associate Staff Physician

Department of Infectious Diseases

Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland, OH