J Eric Ahlskog MD

Parkinsons Disease Treat Guide Physic C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Roughly 1.9 million people are afflicted with Parkinson's disease and, according to the Parkinson's Disease Foundation, that number is on the rise! Parkinson's Disease Treatment Guide for Physicians will comprehensively cover Parkinson's disease (PD), including diagnosis, testing, prognosis, and possible causes. Its primary focus will be on treatment, specifying appropriate drugs, doses, and common side effects. It will address not only the treatment of motor problems (tremor, gait, etc.), but everything else that routinely arises in a PD practice, including osteoporosis prevention, blood pressure, sexual, bowel, or bladder dysfunction, dementia, depression, common skin rashes, and more. This book will mirror Dr. Ahlskog's earlier book, The Parkinson's Treatment Book: Partnering with Your Doctor to Get the Most from Your Medications (2005). Each chapter in the current book will follow the same outline and cover nearly the same material as in each chapter of the earlier patient book, but it will be more succint and direct, with many teaching points summarized wtih bullet points or in small tables. In effect, the clinician and patient can both be reading, or have read, the same material.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780195371772
• ISBN-10: 0195371771
• Artikelnr.: 26365672

Inhaltsangabe

* Contents
* Contributors
* 1: Background
* 2: Clinical Basics: Understanding and Examining the Motor System
* 3: Basic Neuropathology and Neuroanatomy of Parkinson's Disease
* 4: Clinical Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease
* 5: Natural Progresion of Parkinson's Disease Over the Lifetime
* 6: Conditions Mistaken for Parkinson's Disease
* 7: Efficient Testing, Including Brain Imaging
* 8: Etiology and Epidemiology of Parkinson's Disease
* 9: Strategies for Slowing PD Progresion
* 10: Overview: Available Drugs for Motor Problems of PD
* 11: Choosing the Initial Drug (Confronting Controversies)
* 12: Starting Treatment with Carbidopa/Levodopa
* 13: Starting Treatment with Dopamine Agonist Drugs
* 14: Parkinsonism-plus Syndromes, Levedopa Failures, and Refractory
Tremor: Treatment Options
* 15: Problems that May Surface During the Firt Few Years of Levodopa
Treatment
* 16: Initial Dopamine Agonist Therapy: Problems Surfacing After the
First Year
* 17: Levodopa Adjustments to Treat Motor Instability: Motor
Fluctuations, Dyskinesias
* 18: Adjunctive Drugs for Motor Fluctuations and Dyskinesias
* 19: Non-Motor Symptons Requiring Dopamine Replacement Therapy
* 20: Insomnia, Somnolence, and Other Sleep Disorders
* 21: Orthostatic Hypotension and Other Causes of Dizziness
* 22: Depression
* 23: Dementia
* 24: Hallucinations, Delusions, and Pathologic Behaviors
* 25: Dysphagia, Drooling, and Dysarthia
* 26: Constipation, Delayed Gastric Emptying
* 27: Urinary Symptons
* 28: Sexual Dysfunction, Estrogen, Menstrual Cycles
* 29: Other Common Problems: Edema, Rashes, Visual Symptons
* 30: Diets, Nutrition, and Osteoporosis Prevention
* 31: Exercise, Physical Therapy, and an Active Lifestyle
* 32: Societal and Occupational Issues: Caregivers
* 33: Surgery: Non-neurologic and PD Operations, including DBS
* 34: Future PD Treatment: Directing Resources and Counseling Patients
* 35: Clinical Rating Scales and Patient Resources
* Index