Autonomic Disorders in Clinical Practice (eBook)

This book is focused on a clinical-based diagnostic approach of autonomic dysfunctions, highlighting main diagnostic tools and pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies available nowadays. 

 

The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is a subcomponent of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and dysfunction of one or more subdivisions of the ANS, when accompanying other diseases, is linked to a worse prognosis of the latter. In some circumstances or when severe, dysfunction of ANS itself results in symptoms and disability.  A myriad of factors can cause autonomic dysfunction and more than one can concur even in the same patient; due to the expansive nature of the ANS, patients can be affected by a wide range of conditions.

 

Each chapter is characterized by a similar structure and is devoted to a different dysfunction. For each pathology, the book offers the essential information on mechanisms of action, treatments and outcomes.

 

Written by experts in the research of these disorders, the volume addresses primarily Neurologists, but will be a useful tool also for Gastroenterologists, Ophthalmologists, Urologists, Cardiologists and Internal medicine specialists.

Pietro Cortelli, Neurologist with a particular interest in autonomic nervous system assessment particularly in relation to neurodegenerative disorders and with a particular focus on synucleinopathies (Parkinson's Disease, Pure Autonomic Failure, Multiple System Atrophy, Dementia with Lewy bodies) and in genetic diseases with autonomic failure (ADLD). He is Full Professor of Neurology at the DIBINEM, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, and Director of 'Scuola di Specialità in Neurologia' Operative Director of IRCCS ISNB, University of Bologna. Author of more than 570 papers on international peer-reviewed journals and of approx. 70 chapters of books.

Max Hilz currently co-chairs the Autonomic Nervous System Subspecialty Panel of the European Academy of Neurology, EAN. He also is Past-President of the German Autonomic Society, Past-President of the European Federation of Autonomic Societies, and Past-Chair of the Autonomic Section of the American Academy of Neurology. He published more than 300 original and review articles in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in textbooks and presented his work at several hundred scientific conferences.

Prof. Hilz is experienced in the examination of small nerve fiber diseases and disorders of the autonomic nervous system, including hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathies, diabetic neuropathies, and Fabry disease, and central autonomic disorders.

Giuseppe Micieli is the former head of the Department of Emergency Neurology at the C. Mondino Institute in Pavia from 2009 to 2020. He was previously head of the Emergency Neurology and Stroke Unit at the Humanitas Clinical Institute in Milan and founder of the Stroke Unit at the Mondino Institute in Pavia in 1997. Dr. Micieli has published about 260 papers in English and numerous volumes in both Italian and English; among them, for Springer, the volume Decision Algorithms for Emergency Neurology. Dr. Micieli's main areas of interest and research are Cerebrovascular Disease, Emergency Neurology, and the Study of the Vegetative Nervous System.