After long experience and fascination with this field, and unresolved questions about the nature and management of NCSE, we have assembled a comprehensive monograph, Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus. A panel of international authorities and colleagues have provided diagnostic and management insights for this mysterious, clinically challenging, and surprisingly common condition.
The purpose of this volume is to cover the full range of information on NCSE from animal models to the bedside, from neonates to the elderly, from the pleomorphic clinical features through the diagnostic dilemmas, ending with treatment options and prognosis.
The book is organized to cover multiple perspectives on age-related, genetic, syndromic, clinical, diagnostic, therapeutic, and prognostic considerations. It starts with chapters reviewing the history and a new classification of NCSE, reflecting a contemporary understanding of developmental, syndromic, and clinical aspects. Chapters follow on relevant epidemiology, electrophysiology, imaging, and pathophysiology.
The next 2 sections cover the clinical features of focal NCSE arranged by the cerebral lobe involved and those of absence (generalized) status and electrographic status epilepticus in coma. Subsequent chapters are devoted to psychiatric and behavioral aspects of NCSE and to differential diagnostic considerations of its frequently unusual behavioral presentations.
An entire section is devoted to the different seizure types and NCSE syndromes according to age (from infancy to the elderly) and to special considerations pertinent to the management of NCSE in patients with specific risks, eg, mental retardation, and NCSE in patients in the intensive care unit—who are often comatose. The final section covers treatment principles and guidelines, along with individual chapters addressing prognosis in infants, children, adults, and the elderly.
This volume will be helpful to neurologists, intensive care specialists, emergency room staff, mental health workers, fellows, residents, and students and that it will facilitate a comprehensive understanding and better treatment of the many forms of NCSE. We have enjoyed learning from the widely varied expertise of the many esteemed colleagues whom we were delighted to recruit and hope that this multidisciplinary contribution will provide physicians with a comprehensive source of information and opinion on nonconvulsive status epilepticus.
Contents
I General Considerations in Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
1. The History of Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
2. The Classification of Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
3. The Epidemiology of Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
4. The Electroencephalogram of Nonconvulsive Status Epileticus
5. Controversial Electroencephalographic Patterns and Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
6. Imaging in Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
7. Pathophysiology of Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
II Focal Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
8. Frontal Lobe Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
9. Parietal Lobe Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
10. Temporal Lobe Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
11. Occipital Lobe Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
III Generalized/Absence (Nonconvulsive) Status Epilepticus
12. Absence Status Epilepticus
13. Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus in Critically Ill and Comatose Patients in the Intensive Care Unit
IV Semiology of Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
14. Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus: A Mimicker of Neurologic Disorders
15. Psychiatric Manifestations of Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
V Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus in Populations at Risk and by Age
16. Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus in Infants
17. Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus in Children
18. Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus in the Elderly
19. Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus: Special Considerations in the Mentally Retarded
VI Management and Prognosis of Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
20. Principles of Treatment of Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
21. Prognosis and Outcomes of Infants and Children with Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
22. Prognosis and Outcomes of Adults with Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
Index
Book Details
- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: Demos Medical Publishing; 1 edition
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1933864109
- ISBN-13: 978-1933864105
- Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7 x 0.8 inches