Thoroughly updated for its Fourth Edition, this best-selling pocket referenceis a practical point-of-care guide to the diagnosis and management of epilepsy. In an easy-to-use outline format, the book provides complete, clinically focused information on seizure classification, epilepsies with different ages ofonset, situation-related epilepsy, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, and all available drug treatments, including dosages, side effects, and drug interactions. This edition's updated coverage of drug therapy includes current American Academy of Neurology guidelines, new drugs, newly approved indications, new information on pharmacokinetics, and results of six registries of antiepileptic drugs in pregnancy. New information on the genetics and molecular biologyof several epilepsy syndromes is also included.
- ISBN: 978-0-7817-7397-3
- Editorial: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés