Brain and Spine Surgery in the Elderly (eBook)

Moncef Berhouma MD, MSc is a consultant neurosurgeon at the University Hospital of Lyon (France). He is an associate professor of neurosurgery and surgical instructor at the European association of neurosurgical societies (EANS). He holds a Master of science in philosophy of neuroscience. He performed his research fellowship in the skull base surgery laboratory at Ohio University in USA (2011). He is the author of more than 50 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, more than 7 book chapters and 2 books. His main interests are minimally-invasive skull base surgery and geriatric neurosurgery.  Pierre Krolak-Salmon, MD, PhD is a neurologist and geriatrician at the University Hospital of Lyon (France), Director of Clinical Research Memory Centre of Lyon and of the Clinical Research Centre “Elderly, Brain and Frailty”, head of the Social Cognition and Cognitive Disorders research group at Neuroscience Center of Lyon. He completed his Neurosciences Master in 1999 and his PhD on brain dynamics of facial emotional expression recognition in 2004. He also studied at the Welcome Trust in London, UK and Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, USA. He currently has an active teaching role at the University Claude Bernard in Lyon, in the fields of geriatrics, neurology, neuroscience and neuropsychology. His main areas of research interest include biomarkers (CSF and neuroimaging) and predictors of autonomy loss in dementia; social cognition and emotion recognition; clinical neurology and geriatrics. 

FOREWORDMichael APUZZO – University of Southern California (USA)PREFACEEpistemology and rationale of geriatric neurosurgeryMoncef BERHOUMA - Lyon University Hospital (France)PART 1 – NEUROLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE ELDERLYChapter 1. Physiology of the ageing nervous systemMoncef BERHOUMA - Lyon University Hospital (France)Chapter 2. Neurological assessment and neurocognitive evaluation of the elderlyPierre KROLAK-SALMON - Lyon University Hospital (France)PART 2 – NEUROANESTHESIA AND CRITICAL CAREChapter 3. Neuroanesthesia of the elderlyAndrew William KOFKE – University of Pennsylvania (USA)Chapter 4. Perioperative neurotoxicity in the elderlyRoderic ECKENHOFF – University of Pennsylvania (USA)PART 3 – INTRACRANIAL TUMORSChapter 5. Intracranial meningiomasDavid SCHUL – University of Munich (Germany)Chapter 6. Brain gliomasFrançois DUCRAY – University of Lyon (France)Chapter 7. Pituitary adenomasPaolo CAPPABIANCA – University of Naples (Italy)Chapter 8. Vestibular schwannomasMichael LINK – Mayo Clinic, Minnesota (USA)Chapter 9. Brain metastasesMoncef BERHOUMA - Lyon University Hospital (France)Chapter 10. CNS LymphomaAndreas HOTTINGER - University of Lausanne (Switzerland)PART 4 – SPINAL PATHOLOGIESChapter 11. Degenerative cervical spineChristian EWALD – University of Jena (Germany)Chapter 12. Degenerative lumbar spineChristian EWALD – University of Jena (Germany)Chapter 13. Spinal injuries of the elderlyMichael FEHLINGS – University of Toronto (Canada)Chapter 14. Vertebral tumors of the elderlyEdward BENZEL – Cleveland Clinic (USA)Chapter 15. Intramedullary spinal cord tumorsGeorge JALLO – University of Baltimore (USA)Chapter 16. Intradural extramedullary spinal tumorsRichard FESSLER – University of Chicago (USA)Chapter 17. Spinal infectionsHideki NAGASHIMA – University of Tottori (Japan)PART 5 – HEAD INJURYChapter 18. Traumatic brain injury in the elderlyAndrea KLEINDIENST- University of Erlangen (Germany)Chapter 19. Chronic subdural hematomaAngelos KOLIAS – University of Cambridge (UK)PART 6 – NEUROVASCULARChapter 20. Subarachnoid hemorrhage in the elderlyMats RYTTLEFORS – University of Uppsala (Sweden)Chapter 21. Intracerebral and intraventricular hemorrhageMats RYTTLEFORS – University of Uppsala (Sweden)Chapter 22. Malignant pseudo-tumoral strokeEelco WIJDICKS – Mayo Clinic, Minnesota (USA)PART 7 – HYDROCEPHALUS IN THE ELDERLYMichael A. WILLIAMS – University of Washington (USA)PART 8 – TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIARaymond SEKULA – University of Pittsburgh (USA)PART 9 –  ETHICAL ISSUES IN NEUROSURGICAL ELDERLY PATIENTS Marc BERNSTEIN - University of Toronto (Canada)APPENDIX