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Evaluation and Treatment of Myopathies provides practical information on muscle disease, emphasizing clinical features and diagnostic approaches, and highlighting the latest information on treatment.
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Robert C. Griggs, Professor and Chairman of Neurology; Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Jerry R. Mendell, Professor and Chairman of Neurology; Professor of Pathology; Director of the Neuromuscular Disease Center, Ohio
State University School of Medicine. Robert G. Miller, Clinical Professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco; Chairman of Neurology; Director of Neuromuscular Research, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco.
State University School of Medicine. Robert G. Miller, Clinical Professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco; Chairman of Neurology; Director of Neuromuscular Research, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco.
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0803644108
- ISBN 13 9780803644106
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages464
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Gut. XXII, 434 p.: Ill. Aus dem Vorbesitz von Peter Frommelt: Facharzt für Neurologie und Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und für Physikalische und Rehabilitative Medizin; 1988-2011 Chefarzt der Abteilung für Neurologische und Neuropsychologische Rehabilitation der Asklepios-Klinik Schaufling/Deggendorf, 2013 Helmut-Bauer Preis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurologie und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurorehabilitation. - Einband leicht berieben, mit getrocknetem Wasserschaden, daher viele Seiten etwas gewellt, Ex Libris Frommelt im Vorsatz / Binding slightly rubbed, with dried water damage, therefore many pages somewhat curled, ex libris Frommelt in endpaper. - CONTENTS Part I. Approach to the Patient with Muscle Disease 1. STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF NORMAL MUSCLE THE MOTOR UNIT MUSCLE FIBER TYPES Neural Control of Muscle Fiber Type Activation of Motor Units According to Muscle Fiber Type VOLUNTARY CONTROL OF MOTOR UNIT ACTIVITY Relationship of Size to the Recruitment of Single Motor Units Firing Rates of Single Motor Units Impaired Voluntary Control of Motor Units MECHANISMS OF MUSCULAR CONTRACTION Biochemistry of Contraction The Sliding Filament Theory Excitation-Contraction Coupling CYTOSKELETON SUMMARY OF MUSCLE FUNCTION: RELATIONSHIP TO MYOPATHIES 2. EVALUATION OF THE PATIENT WITH MYOPATHY DEFINITION OF MYOPATHY The Hereditary Myopathies The Inflammatory Myopathies Myopathies Due to Systemic Diseases CLINICAL EVALUATION History Examination DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Disorders Presenting at Birth with Hypotonia Disorders Presenting in Infancy Disorders Presenting in Childhood with Progressive Proximal Weakness Disorders Presenting in Adulthood LABORATORY EVALUATION Blood Studies Urine Studies Muscle Imaging Procedures ELECTRODIAGNOSIS The Technique of Electromyography Abnormal Spontaneous Activity Voluntary Activity Quantitative Electromyography Electrical Stimulation Tests: Nerve Conduction Studies MUSCLE BIOPSY Indications for Biopsy Selection of Biopsy Sites Tissue Removal and Preparation Histologic Techniques Differentiating Neuropathy from Myopathy Preferential Fiber Type Involvement Sources of Diagnostic Error NERVE BIOPSY Indications for Biopsy Selection of Biopsy Sites Tissue Removal and Preparation 3. GENETIC EVALUATION OF THE PATIENT AND FAMILY CLINICAL EVALUATION APPLICATION OF RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY Patient and Family Sampling Probes for DNA Analysis Southern Blotting Polymerase Chain Reaction USE OF GENETIC INFORMATION FOR DIAGNOSIS Detection of Disease Genes Carrier Detection and Prenatal Diagnosis Linkage Analysis Part II. Specific Myopathies 4. THE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES DYSTROPHIN-DEFICIENT DYSTROPHIES Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Becker Muscular Dystrophy Phenotypic Variations of Dystrophin Deficiency. Genetics of Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophies Treatment EMERY-DREIFUSS MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY Clinical Features Laboratory Features Genetics Treatment MYOTONIC MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY Clinical Features Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy Laboratory Features Genetics Treatment FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY Clinical Features Laboratory Features Genetics Treatment SCAPULOPERONEAL SYNDROMES Muscular Dystrophy with Scapuloperoneal Distribution Spinal Muscular Atrophy with Scapuloperoneal Distribution Peripheral Neuropathy with Scapuloperoneal Distribution (Davidenkow's Syndrome) LIMB-GIRDLE DYSTROPHY Clinical Features Laboratory Features Genetics Treatment OCULOPHARYNGEAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY Clinical Features Laboratory Features Genetics Treatment CONGENITAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY Congenital Muscular Dystrophy without Cerebral Involvement Congenital Muscular Dystrophy with Cerebral Involvement Treatment DISTAL MYOPATHIES Welander Myopathy (Late-Adult-OnsetType I) Late-Onset Distal Myopathy Type II (Markesbery) Early-Adult-Onset Distal Myopathy 5. INFLAMMATORY MYOPATHIES DERMATOMYOSITIS Clinical Features Laboratory Features Management Pathogenesis POLYMYOSITIS Clinical Features Laboratory Features Differential Diagnosis Distinguishing Polymyalgia Rheumatica from Polymyositis Management Pathogenesis INCLUSION BODY MYOSITIS Clinical Features Laboratory Features Treatment Pathogenesis MYOPATHIES ASSOCIATED WITH OTHER CONNECTIVE-TISSUE DISEASES Mixed Connective-Tissue Disease Progressive Systemic Sclerosis Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Rheumatoid Arthritis Sjogren's Syndrome Polyarteritis Nodosa and Other Forms of Systemic Vasculitis Behcet's Syndrome GIANT-CELL AND GRANULOMATOUS MYOSITIS Giant-Cell Myositis Sarcoidosis Inflammatory Bowel Disease EOSINOPHILIC SYNDROMES AND MYOSITIS Eosinophilic Polymyositis Diffuse Fasciitis with Eosinophilia (Shulman's Syndrome) Eosinophilia-Myalgia Syndrome Associated with Tryptophan Toxic-Oil Syndrome MYOSITIS AND MYOPATHIES CAUSED BY INFECTIOUS AGENTS Viral Infections Protozoa Helminths Lyme Disease Bacterial Infections Fungal Infection GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE 6. CONGENITAL MYOPATHIES DEFINITION OF CONGENITAL MYOPATHY PRESENTATION OF A PATIENT WITH CONGENITAL MYOPATHY Differential Diagnosis of Floppy Infant Clinical and Laboratory Features of Congenital Myopathies COMMON TYPES OF CONGENITAL MYOPATHIES. Central Core Disease Nemaline Myopathy Centronuclear Myopathy UNCOMMON TYPES OF CONGENITAL MYOPATHIES Multicore Disease Fingerprint Body Myopathy Sarcotubular Myopathy Hyaline Body Myopathy (Familial Myopathy with Probable Lysis of Myofibrils) DUBIOUS TYPES OF CONGENITAL MYOPATHIES. Congenital Fiber-Type Disproportion Reducing Body Myopathy Cytoplasmic (Spheroid) Body Myopathy Myopathy with Tubular Aggregates Zebra Body Myopathy Trilaminar Myopathy Other Rare, Morphologically Distinct Myopathies. 7. METABOLIC MYOPATHIES ENERGY METABOLISM IN EXERCISING MUSCLE Glycogen Metabolism t Lipid Metabolism Other Sources of Energy EVALUATION OF THE PATIENT Clinical Features Laboratory Findings DEFECTS OF GLYCOGEN METABOLISM Disorders Producing Dynamic Symptoms (Exercise Intolerance) Disorders Producing Static Symptoms (Fixed Weakness) DEFECTS OF LIPID METABOLISM. Seller Inventory # 1219818
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