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Principles of treatments in multiple sclerosis / edited by Clive P. Hawkins, Jerry S. Wolinsky ; foreword by Ian McDonald.
Holman Biotech Commons RC377 .P75 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Multiple sclerosis--Treatment.
- Multiple sclerosis.
- Multiple Sclerosis--therapy.
- Medical Subjects:
- Multiple Sclerosis--therapy.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Treatments in multiple sclerosis
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000.
- Contents:
- 1 Pathogenesis and clinical subtypes of multiple sclerosis / Clive Hawkins 2
- Acute relapses 13
- 2 Treatment of acute relapses / David Barnes 14
- Disease modifying drugs
- relapsing disease 23
- 3 Interferon beta-1b / Donald Paty 24
- 4 Interferon beta-1a / Lance Blumhardt 38
- 5 Glatiramer acetate / Jerry Wolinsky 71
- 6 Immunoglobulins / Franz Fazekas, Ralf Gold, Hans-Peter Hartung, Siegrid Strasser-Fuchs 95
- 7 Azathioprine / Jacqueline Palace 114
- 8 Mitoxantrone / Gilles Edan, Sean Morrissey 131
- progressive disease 147
- 9 Treatments for progressive forms of MS / Mariko Kita, Donald Goodkin 148
- emerging therapies 163
- 10 Emerging therapies / Charles Davie, David Miller 164
- overview 177
- 11 Overview of treatment strategies for relapsing and progressive disease / Clive Hawkins, Jerry Wolinsky 178
- Symptomatic management 183
- 12 Management of spasticity
- pharmacological agents / Michael Barnes 184
- 13 Management of spasticity
- botulinum toxin / Anthony Ward 201
- 14 Symptomatic management: ataxia, tremor and fatigue / Carolyn Young 228
- 15 The cause and management of bladder, sexual and bowel symptoms / Iqbal Hussain, Clare Fowler 258
- 16 Neurobehavioural abnormalities / Anthony Feinstein 282
- 17 Multidisciplinary approach / Alan Thompson 299
- Drug synonyms 316.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 075064270X
- OCLC:
- 43672672
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