Neuromuscular Disorders

Rabi N. Tawil, MD, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA Shannon Venance, MD, PhD, FRCPCP, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Contributor List viii Acknowledgment x Series Foreword xi Preface xii 1 Neuromuscular Diseases: Approach to Clinical Diagnosis 1 Shannon Venance and Rabi Tawil part i myopathies 2 Approach to Diseases of Muscle 9 Matthew P. Wicklund 3 Inflammatory Myopathies 15 Steven A. Greenberg 4 Toxic Myopathies 22 Steven K. Baker 5 Metabolic Myopathies 30 Ingrid Tein 6 Mitochondrial Myopathies 42 Michio Hirano, Valentina Emmanuele, and Catarina M. Quinzii 7 Dystrophinopathies 51 Shannon L. Venance 8 Limb Girdle Dystrophies 57 Michela Guglieri and Kate Bushby 9 Facioscapulohumeral Dystrophy 74 Constantine Farmakidis and Rabi Tawil 10 Myotonic Dystrophies 80 Nicholas Johnson and Chad R. Heatwole 11 Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy 87 Annie Dionne and Jean-Pierre Bouchard 12 Distal Myopathies 91 Bjarne Udd 13 Muscle Channelopathies 96 James Burge and Michael G. Hanna 14 Congenital Myopathies 103 Nigel Clarke and Kathryn North part ii disorders of the neuromuscular junction 15 Approach to Diseases of the Neuromuscular Junction 113 Donald B. Sanders 16 Myasthenia Gravis 118 Michael K. Hehir and Emma Ciafaloni 17 Botulism 126 Nikhil Balakrishnan and Matthew N. Meriggioli 18 Lambert Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome 134 Michael W. Nicolle 19 Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes 142 Andrew G. Engel part iii disorders of peripheral nerve 20 Approach to Diagnosis of Peripheral Nerve Disease 153 James C. Cleland and Eric L. Logigian 21 Hereditary Motor Sensory Neuropathies (Charcot Marie Tooth Disease) 162 Araya Puwanant and David N. Herrmann 22 Diabetic Neuropathies 170 Douglas W. Zochodne 23 Toxic and Metabolic Neuropathies 177 Kurt Kimpinski 24 Acute Infl ammatory Demyelinating Neuropathies and Variants 183 Mazen M. Dimachkie and Richard J. Barohn 25 Chronic Immune-mediated Demyelinating Polyneuropathies 190 Agnes Jani-Acsadi and Richard A. Lewis 26 Vasculitic Neuropathies 198 W. David Arnold and John T. Kissel 27 Paraneoplastic Neuropathies 204 Pariwat Thaisetthawatkul 28 Brachial and Lumbosacral Plexopathies 210 Kristine M. Chapman and Amanda Sherwin part iv disorders of motor neurons 29 Approach to Diseases of the Motor Neurons 223 Christen Shoesmith 30 Spinal Muscular Atrophy 229 Jacqueline Montes and Petra Kaufmann 31 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 236 Amy Chen and Hiroshi Mitsumoto 32 Neuromuscular Disorders in the Intensive Care Unit 243 Maxwell S. Damian and David Hilton-Jones Index 249 The colour plate section can be found facing page 228.