Childhood neuromuscular disorders differ from adult diseases and require much experience to evaluate. However, most neurologists trained in EMG have little experience evaluating children or infants. This book, written by a stellar list of world-class experts in paediatric neuromuscular diseases, provides clinicians with the knowledge they need to successfully diagnose and treat their paediatric patients.
I. Clinical and Laboratory Approach to the Infant and Child with a Neuromuscular Problem 1. Introduction: Historical Perspectives 2. Genetics 3. EMG 4. Muscle Biopsy 5. Nerve Biopsy
II. Infantile Hypotonia and Arthrogryposis 6. Neonatal Hypotonia 7. Arthrogryposis
III. Anterior Horn Cell Disorders 8. Spinal Muscular Atrophies 9. Juvenile Muscular Atrophy of Unilateral Upper Extremity (Hirayama Disease) 10. Juvenile ALS vs. Other Motor Neuron Disorders 11. Infantile Poliomyelitis and Other Enteropathic Motor Neuron Diseases
IV. Radiculopathies and Plexopathies 12. Radiculopathies 13. Plexopathies Rabies
Polyneuropathies 20. Overview of the Neuropathies 21. Congenital and Early Infantile Neuropathies 22. Hereditary Charcot - Marie - Tooth and Other Genetic Neuropathies 23. Guillain - Barre Syndrome 24. Acute Moter Axonal Neuropathy in Childhood 25. Tick Paralysis 26. Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating and Recurrent Neuropathies 27. Peripheral Neuropathy in Inherited Metabolic Disease 28. Neuropathies Secondary to Systemic Disorders 29. Childhood Hansens Disease 30. Toxic Neuropathies 31. Autonomic Neuropathies
V. Neuromuscular Junction Disorders 32. Infantile Botulism 33. Congential Miyasthenia Gravis 34. Acquired Miyasthenia Gravis in Childhood
VI. Myopathies 35. Clinical Syndromes of Congenital Myopathies 36. Congenital Muscular Dystrophies 37. Dystrophinopathies 38. Facioscapulohumeral Dystrophy, Scapuloperoneal Syndromes and Distal Myopathies 39. The Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophies 40. Emery - Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy 41. Myopathies of Systemic Disease 42. Channelopathies Affecting Skeletal Muscle in Childhood 43. Glycogen Storage Diseases of Muscle 44. Lipid Storage Muscular Disorders 45. Myoadenylate Deaminase Deficiency 46. Metabolic : Mitochondrial 47. Juvenile Dermatomyositis and other Inflammatory Myopathies in Children 48. Other Inflammatory Myopathies: Viral Trichinosis, and Pyomyositis 49. Rigid Spine Syndromes
VII. Special Clinical Problems 50. Neuromuscular Problems of the Critically III Neonate and Child 51. HyperCKemia and Rhabdomyolysis 52. Malignant Hyperthermia 53. Continuous Muscle Fiber Activity Including the Stiff Person 54. Disorder of the Ocular Motor Cranial Nerves and Extraocular Muscles 55. Neurogenic Dysphagia in Newborns and Infants 56. Friedreichs Ataxis, Vitamin E. Deficiency 57. Dominantly Inherited Spinocerebellar Syndromes 58. Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
VIII. General Therapeutic Principles 59. Autoimmune Pharmacotherapeutic Intervention in Children 60. Androgen and Corticosteroid Therapy of Muscular Dystrophies: New Therapeutic Modalities 61. The Principles and Practice of Molecular Therapies 62. Intensive Care Management 63. Orthopedic Treatment 64. Rehabilitation of the Pediatric Patient with a Neuromuscular Disease 65. Bioethical Issues
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