Neuromuscular disorders of infancy, childhood, and adolescence : a clinician's approach /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : historical perspectives -- Genetics of neuromuscular disorders -- Electromyography in pediatrics -- Muscle biopsy for diagnosis of neuromuscular and metabolic diseases -- Nerve biopsy -- Neonatal hypotonia -- Arthrogryposis -- Spinal muscular atrophies -- Juvenile amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Infectious or acquired motor neuron diseases -- The stiff-man syndrome in children and adolescents -- Radiculopathies and plexopathies -- Congenital and acquired facial palsies -- Mononeuropathies -- Overview of pediatric peripheral neuropathies -- Congenital and early infantile neuropathies -- Hereditary neuropathies in late childhood and adolescence -- Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathies -- Peripheral neuropathy in inherited metabolic disease -- Acute polyneuropathies -- Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy -- Neuropathies secondary to systemic disorders -- Toxic neuropathies -- Hansen's disease (leprosy) : leprous neuropathy -- Acquired presynaptic neuromuscular junction disorders : infant botulism and Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome -- Congenital myasthenic syndromes -- Juvenile and neonatal myasthenia gravis -- Congenital and other structural myopathies -- Congenital muscular dystrophies -- Dystrophinopathies -- Clinical management of dystrophinopathies : a systematic approach -- Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy -- Distal myopathies -- Limb-girdle muscular dystrophies -- Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy : nuclear envelopathies -- Myopathies of systemic disease -- Myotonic dystrophy -- Muscle channelopathies : myotonias and periodic paralyses -- Glycogen storage diseases of muscle -- Lipid storage myopathies due to fatty acid oxidation defects -- Mitochondrial encephalomyopathies -- Juvenile dermatomyositis and other inflammatory myopathies in children -- Neuromuscular problems of the critically ill neonate and child -- Intensive care management, including cardiorespiratory care -- Malignant hyperthermia : an inherited disorder of muscle calcium metabolism -- Disorders of the ocular motor cranial nerves and extraocular muscles -- Oromotor dysfunction in neuromuscular disorders : evaluation and treatment -- Complex regional pain syndromes i and ii (reflex sympathetic dystrophy, causalgia) -- Friedreich ataxia -- Dominantly inherited spinocerebellar syndromes -- Principles and practice of molecular therapies -- Orthopedic management -- Rehabilitation of the child with a neuromuscular disorder -- Outcome measures in neuromuscular diseases.…”
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