Neurology and Pregnancy: Pathophysiology and General Principles of Patient Care

ISBN-13: 9780444642394 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 400 str.

Eric A. P. Steegers; Marilyn J. Cipolla; Eliza C. Miller

Spis treści

SECTION I. Neurophysiologic changes in pregnancy 1. Neuroendocrine mechanisms of reproduction 2. Neurophysiological and cognitive changes in pregnancy 3. Adaptations in autonomic nervous system regulation in normal and hypertensive pregnancy 4. Physiology of the cerebrovascular adaptation to pregnancy 5. Neurobiology of maternal mental illness

SECTION II. The pregnant patient: General issues in neurologic care 6. Epidemiology of neurologic disease in pregnancy 7. Neuro-obstetrics: A multidisciplinary approach to care of women with neurologic disease 8. Perinatal pharmacology and safety profiles 9. Neuroimaging and radiation exposure in pregnancy 10. Neuro-anesthesiology in pregnancy 11. Neurocritical care of the pregnant patient 12. Neurologic complications of medical conditions in pregnancy 13. The ethics of neurologically complicated pregnancies

SECTION III. Prenatal neurologic diagnoses: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management 14. The developing brain by trimester 15. Diagnosis and management of congenital neurologic disease during pregnancy 16. Perinatal stroke

O autorze

Eric A.P. Steegers is a gynecologist and head of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Marilyn J. Cipolla studies cerebrovascular disease, stroke and brain injury associated with preeclampsia and eclampsia in the Department of Neurological Sciences, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States. Eliza C. Miller is a vascular neurologist and Assistant Professor of Neurology at Columbia University, New York, NY.