Neuromuscular Disorders (eBook)

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.

"This excellent book should be made available to students
rotating through neurology, and should be owned by every neurology
resident and most neurologists." (Canadian Journal
of Neurological Sciences, 1 September 2012)