Peripheral Nerve and Muscle Disease

Description

Part of the "What Do I Do Now?" series, Peripheral Nerve and Muscle Disease uses a case-based approach to cover common and important topics in the diagnosis and treatment of neuromuscular disorders. Each chapter provides an overview of the approach to the problem in question followed by a discussion of the diagnosis, key points to remember, and selected references for further reading. In this edition, new cases include: Lambert-Eaton Syndrome, Botulism, Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy, and Small Fiber Neuropathy Associated withFibromyalgia. Peripheral Nerve and Muscle Disease is an engaging collection of thought-provoking cases which clinicians can utilize when they encounter difficult patients on the ward or in the clinic. The volume is also a self-assessment tool that tests the reader's ability to answerthe question, "What do I do now?"

• Provides specific insight on interventions for neuromuscular disorders
• Part of the "What Do I Do Now?" series which utilizes a case-based approach and a conversational tone
• Both an engaging collection of thought-provoking cases and a self-assessment tool 

Contents

Section I. Neuropathy
1. A 35-Year-Old Man with Progressive Left Hand Weakness
2. A 54-Year-Old Male with Right-Hand Weakness
3. A 50-Year-Old with Speech, Swallowing and Behavioral Difficulties
4. A 45-Year-Old Male with Toxin Exposure
5. A 48-Year-Old with Progressive Weakness and Pain
6. A 30-Year-Old Requiring Management of Progressive Weakness
7. A 61-Year-Old Male with Severe Shoulder and Cervical Pain
8. A 55-Year-Old Male with Right Foot Weakness
9. A 63-Year-Old Male with Severe Flaccid Weakness Post MVA
10. A 55-Year-Old Female with Slowly Progressive Weakness
11. A 40-Year-Old Female with Balance And Numbness After Bariatric Surgery
12. A 55-Year-Old Female with a History of Right Foot Drop and Left Hand Weakness
13. A 40-Year-Old Female with Increasing Arm Pain and Numbness
14. A 59-Year-Old Man with Progressive Difficulties with Balance and Weight Loss
15. A 68-Year-Old Male with Progressive Numbness and Gait Difficulties
16. A 28 Year-Old Male with Weakness in the Setting of Cancer
17. A 44 Year-Old Man with Bilateral Facial Droop
18. A 41 Year-old Man with Food Drop and Malaise
19. A 44 Year-old Woman with Buttock Pain
20. A 50 Year-Old With Burning Feet
21. A 56 Year-Old with Small Fiber Neuropathy and Progressive Leg Pain and Weakness
Section II. Myopathy
22. A 34 Year-Old Man with Possible Myopathic Process
23. A 39 Year-Old Man with Low Back Pain and Scapular Winging
24. A 52-Year-Old Female with Weakness and Droopy Eyelids
25. A 20-Year-Old Male with Acute Lower Extremity Weakness
26. A 19-Year-Old Male with Stiffness and Weakness After Waking
27. A 68-Year-Old Female with Progressive Pain and Weakness
28. An 18-Year-Old Male with Slowly Progressive Weakness
29. A 30-Year-Old Male with Severe Cramps
Section III. Neuromuscular Junction and Autonomic Neuropathy
30. A 72-Year-Old Female with Facial Weakness and Droopy Eyelids
31. An 80-Year-Old MG Patient with Worsening Weakness
32. A 44-Year-Old Male with Subacute Onset of Syncope
33. A 46-Year-Old Man with Double Vision and Proximal Leg Weakness
34. A 2- Month- Old Boy with Acute Diffuse Weakness

Author Information

Jeffrey A. Cohen, MD, Chair of Neurology; Professor of Neurology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth University; Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Justin J. Mowchun, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth University; Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Victoria H. Lawson, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth University; Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and Nathaniel M. Robbins, MD, Instructor in Neurology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth University; Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Jeffrey A. Cohen, MD is the Chair and a Professor of Neurology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Justin J. Mowchun, MD is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Victoria H. Lawson, MD is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Nathaniel M. Robbinsis an Instructor in Neurology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire.