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Neurology and pregnancy : clinical management / edited by Michael S. Marsh, Lina A.M. Nashef, Peter A. Brex.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Series in maternal-fetal medicine.
- Series In Maternal-Fetal Medicine
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pregnancy--Complications.
- Pregnancy.
- Nervous system--Diseases.
- Nervous system.
- Nervous system--Diseases--Complications.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (282 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Informa Healthcare ; Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Pregnancy complicated by neurological disorders is a challenging area for both obstetricians and neurologists. Treatment of the maternal condition often needs to be adjusted because of concerns for the fetus, and some conditions have a major impact on the method, mode, and timing of delivery. Many of the clinical problems that arise in pregnant women with a neurological disease have not been the subject of clinical trials, so management must often be based on what published evidence is available and a good understanding of the likely interactions between the condition and pregnancy and vice
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Foreword Nigel Leigh; Foreword Catherine Nelson-Piercy; Preface; Editorial Note on the FDA Classification of Drugs and Pregnancy; Contents; Contributors; Part I: General Issues; 1 Neurogenetics and pregnancy; 2 Imaging during pregnancy; 3 Intrauterine imaging, diagnosis and intervention in neurological disease; 4 Disposition of drugs in pregnancy: anti-epileptic drugs; 5 Therapeutics and breastfeeding; 6a Neuroanaesthesia in pregnancy; 6b Neurocritical care for the pregnant woman; 6c Neurovascular intervention during pregnancy: cerebral aneurysms and vascular malformations
- 7 Analgesia and anaesthesia in neurological disease and pregnancy8 Psychiatric and neuropsychiatric disorders in pregnancy and the post-partum period; 9 Ethical and legal issues; Part II: Neurological Disease; 10 Pre-eclampsia/eclampsia and peri-partum convulsions; 11 Blackouts arising in pregnancy; 12 Epilepsy and pregnancy; 13 Headache in pregnancy; 14 Infections in pregnancy; 15 Idiopathic intracranial hypertension; 16 Stroke in pregnancy; 17 Vascular malformations of the brain in pregnancy; 18 Pituitary disease in pregnancy; 19 Neuro-oncology in pregnancy
- 20 Pregnancy and movement disorders21 Multiple sclerosis and pregnancy; 22 Nutritional deficiencies in pregnancy; 23 Spinal disease and pregnancy; 24 Neurological disability and pregnancy; 25 Peripheral nerve diseases; 26 Muscle disease and myasthenia in pregnancy; Index; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781040178201
- 1040178200
- 9780429183485
- 0429183488
- 9781482220131
- 148222013X
- 9781841847597
- 1841847593
- OCLC:
- 861538154
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