Main description:

This book presents a case based approach to epilepsy management in both diagnostic challenges and treatment of complex cases. Cases reflect "real life" patient scenarios that practitioners encounter with up-to-date terminology and treatment approaches.

With 51 chapters, the book presents 51 unique, nuanced cases. Beginning with an initial presentation of a case history, the book opens with a basis for drawing in multiple aspects in the treatment of patients with epilepsy. Each chapter is organized into a clinical history, physical examination results, and ancillary testing to concentrate on differential diagnosis and focus on a definitive procedural approach to the final diagnosis. Subsequent information about the condition expands on the knowledge of the clinical features to a solution of common patient clinical scenarios as it affects people with epilepsy.

A comprehensive successor edition, Epilepsy Case Studies is an invaluable resource to clinicians ranging from those looking for a quick review of a topic present in the table of contents, to those crossing disciplines into medical areas where seizures are a symptom of disordered or dysfunctional brain.

Contents:

Cases

Neonatal onset-general (ie spasms)

Neonatal onset-focal (hyperglycinemia)

Febrile seizures

Childhood onset-general (CAE)

Lennox-Gastaut syndrome

Childhood onset-focal (BCECTS)

Adolescent onset-general (JME)

Adolescent onset-focal (unknown cause)

Stigmatization Effect (social consequences)

Physical and mental well-being (sports and education)

Physical Comorbidity (CP)

Mental Comorbidity (ADD/Austistic spectrum disorder)

Etiologies of a foreign tissue lesion

Head trauma

Precipitating factors (triggers)

Single seizure (treatment focus)

Drug cessation (treatment focus)

Epilepsy-adult (treatment focus)

Epilepsy-elderly (treatment focus)

Generic AEDs

Side effects

Drug interactions

Birth control

Hormonal replacement

Pregnancy (treatment focus)

Epileptic panic attacks (diagnosis)

Anxiety-Depression

Violence (frontal lobe seizures)

PNEA-women (diagnosis focus)

PNEA-men (treatment focus)

Drug-resistant-neurologically normal ("skip" surgery)

Drug-resistant-neurologically normal but complex (invasive EEG)

Drug-resistant surgical failure (treatment focus)

Work and disability

Memory loss

Status epilepticus-convulsive

Status epilepticus-non-convulsive

SUDEP

Experimental therapies (treatment)

Alternative therapies (treatment)