BookMoncef Berhouma, Pierre Krolak-Salmon, editors.
Summary: This unique and richly illustrated volume presents the state of the art in the comprehensive management of major neurosurgical diseases in the elderly (aged 65 and over). It explores all of the common neurosurgical pathologies affecting elderly patients, and emphasizes the paramount importance of tailored management strategies for quality of life. It highlights updated techniques for anaesthesia and critical care, as well as minimally invasive neurosurgical methods intended for this specific group of patients. Radiosurgery treatment is also discussed, in particular for brain tumours. In western societies, the proportion of elderly citizens has nearly reached 20%, and shows no signs of slowing down. The management of neurosurgical conditions in this particular population requires specific multidisciplinary strategies. To address this situation, a team of internationally respected contributors accurately describe degenerative and traumatic spinal diseases, which account for the majority of admissions among the elderly, as well as brain tumours and intracranial haemorrhages, aspects that are raising new ethical issues. The book mainly addresses the needs of neurosurgeons and geriatric neurologists, but also neuro-oncologists and neuro-anaesthesists working with elderly patients, as well as students in these disciplines.
Contents:
Part 1. Generalities. 1. Rapid growth in the elderly population of the world / Louis G. Pol
2. A brief physiology of the aging / Moncef Berhouma
3. Neurological assessment and neurocognitive evaluation of the elderly / Pierre Krolak-Salmon
Part 2. Neuroanesthesia and critical care. 4. Neurosurgical anesthesia for the elderly: Is age really just a number? / David A. Wyler, Elizabeth M. Gabrielli, W. Andrew Kofke
5. Perioperative neurotoxicity in the elderly; / Elizabeth M. Gabrielli, Roderic G. Eckenhoff
6. Central nervous system infections in the elderly / Rodrigo Hasbun, Allan R. Tunkel
Part 3. Intracranial tumors. 7. Intracranial meningiomas in the elderly / David B. Schul, Chochlidakis Nikos, Chirstianto B. Lumento
8. Brain gliomas in the elderly / Cristina Izquierdo Gracia, Francois Ducray
9. Pituitary adenomas / Paolo Cappabianca, Chiara Caggiano, Domenico Solari, Karol Migliorati, Waleed A. Azab, Elia Guadagno, Marialaura del Basso de Caro, Emmanuel Jouanneau, Luigi M. Cavallo
10. Vestibular schwannoma surgery in the elderly / Philip Y. Sun, Marina L. Castner, Kathryn M. van Abel, Colin L.W. Driscoll, Michael J. Link
11. Management of primary CNS lymphoma in elderly patients / Andreas F. Hottinger, Bianca Moura, Francesco Grandoni, Rita de Micheli
12. Management of brain metastases: Distinctive features in the elderly / Moncef Berhouma
Part 4. Spinal diseases. 13. Degenerative spine disease / Christian Ewald, Albrecht Waschke
14. Spinal injuries of the elderly / Christopher D. Witiw, Laureen D. Hachem, Michael G. Fehlings
15. Extradural vertebral tumors in the elderly / Ryan J. Filler, Timothy T. Roberts, Edward C. Benzel
16. Intramedullary spinal cord tumors / Rajiv R. Iyer, George I. Jallo
17. Intradural extramedullary spoinal tumors / Owoicho Adogwa, Richard G. Fessler
18. Spinal infections / Hideki Nagashima
Part 5. Head injury. 19. Traumatic brain injury in the elderly / Verena Röckelein, Michael Buchfelder, Andrea Kleindienst
20. Chronic subdural haematoma in the elderly / Ellie Edlmann, Peter J. Hutchinson, Angelos G. Kolias
Part 6. Neurovascular. 21. Subarachnoid hemorrhage in the elderly / Mats Ryttlefors, Per Enblad
22. Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage in the elderly / Moncef Berhouma, Timothée Jacquesson, Emmanuel Jouanneau
23. Swollen middle cerebral artery stroke in the elderly / Desmond A. Briown, Eelco F.M. Wijdicks
Part 7. Miscellaneous. 24. Trigeminal neuralgia in the elderly / Jonathan Cohen, Hossein Mousavi, Raymond F. Sekula Jr.
25. Hydrocephalus in the elderly: Diagnosis of idiopathic normal / Albert M. Isaacs, Mark G. Hamilton, Michael A. Williams
26. Hydrocephalus in the elderly: Surgical management of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus / Albert M. Isaacs, Michael A. Williams, Mark G. Hamilton
27. Ethics in neurosurgery for the elderly / Farshad Nassiri, Mark Bernstein
Appendix
Index.