Neuromuscular Junction Disorders

Volume 91
Herausgeber: Engel, A G

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. A volume in the "Handbook of Clinical Neurology" series (Series Editors: Michael J. Aminoff, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, USA; Fran?ois Boller, Bethesda, USA; Dick F. Swaab, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) on neuromuscular junction disorders.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 264mm x 196mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1497g
• ISBN-13: 9780444520081
• ISBN-10: 0444520082
• Artikelnr.: 23819524

Inhaltsangabe

The most vulnerable synapse: historic aspects of neuromuscular junction
disorders. Reliability of neuromuscular transmission and how it is
maintained. The neuromuscular junction. Electromyographic aspects of
neuromuscular junction disorders. The immunopathogenesis of myasthenia
gravis. Autoantibodies in different forms of myasthenia gravis and in the
Lambert-Eaton syndrome. Clinical features of myasthenia gravis. Therapy of
myasthenia gravis. The Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome. Congenital
myasthenic syndromes. Botulism. Neurotoxicology of neuromuscular
transmission. Organophosphate and carbamate poisoning. Peripheral nerve
hyperexcitability and the neuromuscular junction.