Main description:

This book is a practical and easily readable guide for neurologists, obstetricians, and primary care doctors treating female patients with neurological illness in their reproductive years. * Offers wide ranging coverage, including family planning and lactation * Presents information in approachable tables and summaries, focusing on high yield information useful for clinical consultation * Is written by a team of experts and edited by recognized leaders in the field

Contents:

Notes on contributors, vi Preface, ix 1 The history and examination, 1 Mary A. O Neal 2 Hormonal and physiologic changes in pregnancy, 9 Janet F. R. Waters 3 Neuroimaging, 15 William T. Delfyett & David T. Fetzer 4 Neurologic complications in the obstetrical anesthesia patient, 70 Olajide Kowe & Jonathan H. Waters 5 Headaches during pregnancy and peripartum, 80 Huma Sheikh 6 Stroke in pregnancy and the puerperium, 92 Louis R. Caplan & Diogo C. Haussen 7 Selecting contraception for women treated with antiepileptic drugs, 110 Page B. Pennell & Anne Davis 8 Epilepsy, 122 Mark S. Yerby 9 Multiple sclerosis, 142 Aiden Haghikia & Kerstin Hellwig 10 Neuromuscular disorders, 153 Mohammad Kian Salajegheh & Kathy Chuang 11 Anterior and posterior pituitary disease and pregnancy, 167 Mark E. Molitch 12 Movement disorders and pregnancy, 179 Sathiji Nageshwaran, Marsha Smith, & Yvette M. Bordelon 13 Brain tumors and pregnancy, 191 Soma Sengupta & Elizabeth Gerstner 14 Neuro-ophthalmology in pregnancy, 201 Linda P. Kelly, Nancy J. Newman, & Val'erie Biousse 15 Neurological infections in pregnancy, 213 Shibani S. Mukerji & Jennifer L. Lyons 16 Neurosurgery, 234 Judith M. Wong, Anil Can, & Rose Du 17 Sleep disorders, 243 Sally Ibrahim & Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer 18 Neurourology of pregnancy, 258 Kimberly L. Ferrante, Victor W. Nitti, & Benjamin M. Brucker Index, 269