Pediatric Neurology

by Holmes, Gregory

• ISBN13: 9780195394580
• ISBN10: 0195394585
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

What do I do now? Pediatric patients with neurological symptoms or problems pose many clinical challenges and even experienced clinicians occasionally arrive at the point where diagnostic, work-up, treatment, or prognostic thinking becomes blocked. From time to time, children are brought into the pediatrician's office with puzzling neurological symptoms--breath holding spells, refusal to walk, infantile spasms, skin lesions, floppy or absent reflexes--that leave their doctors wondering "what do I do now?" Pediatric Neurology serves the need for a quick reference tool to address these perplexing pediatric neurological symptoms and disorders. Dr. Gregory L. Holmes, Department Chair and Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at Dartmouth Medical School, presents 28 representative cases of both common and rare pediatric neurological problems and diseases including but not limited to: Dopamine Responsive Dystonia, Fragile X Syndrome, Hashimoto's Encephalopathy and Rett Syndrome. The bedside consultation presentation of the cases encourages the reader, whether she or he be a pediatrician, primary care practitioner or medical student, to formulate a differential diagnosis and treatment plan for a wide variety of pediatric neurological problems and diseases.

Author Biography

Section of NeurologyDartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Lebanon, NH

Table of Contents

Absence Seizures	p. 1
Acute Cerebellar Ataxia	p. 6
Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood	p. 11
Benign Neonatal Sleep Myoclonus	p. 15
Benign Rolandic Epilepsy	p. 19
Brain Abscess	p. 23
Breath-Holding Spells/Pallid Infantile Syncope	p. 27
Childhood Epilepsy with Occipital Paroxysms (CEOP)	p. 32
Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy	p. 38
Discitis	p. 42
Dopamine-Responsive Dystonia	p. 45
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy	p. 50
Febrile Seizures	p. 54
Fragile X Syndrome	p. 58
Hashimoto's Encephalopathy	p. 62
Hydrocephalus	p. 67
Infantile Spasms	p. 72
Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy	p. 78
Lissencephaly	p. 85
Moyamoya Disease	p. 92
Neurofibromatosis	p. 96
Nonketotic Hyperglycinemia	p. 102
Opsoclonus-Myoclonus Syndrome	p. 108
Ornithine Transcarbamylase Deficiency	p. 112
Rett Syndrome	p. 118
Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)	p. 124
Status Epilepticus	p. 129
Tethered Cord	p. 133
The Worster-Drought Syndrome	p. 139
Index	p. 145
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