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Title

Status epilepticus : a clinical perspective / edited by Frank Drislane.

Publication

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors

Drislane, Frank.

Description

xv, 363 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"The recent explosive growth in the study of status epilepticus (SE), an epileptic seizure that threatens to produce new seizures, has shown that SE is not a single disease, but arises from different substrates of the brain and comprises multifaceted illnesses. In Status Epilepticus: A Clinical Perspective, a panel of senior clinicians critically reviews the many forms of SE, their causes, manifestations, methods of diagnosis, and appropriate treatments. The authors emphasize the disease as encountered by the clinician in the field and the importance of correct recognition and diagnosis. They provide for each form of SE the underlying genetic, biological, and developmental background, the pathophysiological processes, as well as the precipitating factors that lead to an episode." "Comprehensive and up-to-date, Status Epilepticus: A Clinical Perspective offers the neurologic clinician an authoritative review of the diagnosis and treatment of the many forms of this most serious and challenging acute nervous system disorder."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Current clinical neurology

Uniform Title

Current clinical neurology.

Subjects

• Status Epilepticus
• Convulsions
• Epilepsy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. History of status epilepticus / Peter W. Kaplan -- 2. Types of status epilepticus : definitions and classification / Frank W. Drislane -- 3. Differential diagnosis of status epilepticus : pseudostatus epilepticus / Barbara A. Dowretzky and Edward B. Bromfield -- 4. Epidemiology of status epilepticus / Elizabeth J. Waterhouse -- 5. The electroencephalogram in status epilepticus / Susan T. Herman -- 6. Generalized convulsive status epilepticus : causes, clinical manifestations, and consequences / Bernard S. Chang -- 7. Focal status epilepticus / Donald L. Schomer -- 8. Cellular physiology of status epilepticus / Omotola Hope and Hal Blumenfeld -- 9. Cellular damage and the neuropathology of status epilepticus / Nathan B. Fountain -- 10. Clinical presentations of nonconvulsive status epilepticus / Peter W. Kaplan -- 11. Cognitive manifestations of status epilepticus : ictal aphasia, amnesia, and psychosis / Michael Benatar -- 12. Nonconvulsive status epilepticus : morbidity and consequences / Frank W. Drislane -- 13. Treatment of generalized convulsive status epilepticus / Tina Shih and Carl W. Bazil -- 14. Treatment of refractory status epilepticus / Teresa L. Smith and Thomas P. Bleck -- 15. Treatment of nonconvulsive status epilepticus / Frank W. Drislane -- 16. Status epilepticus in children / James J. Riviello, Jr. -- 17. Status epilepticus in neonates / John N. Gaitanis and James J. Riviello, Jr.

ISBN

1588293556 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2004030486

OCLC

• ocm57342202
• SCSB-5210516

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries