BookCorrado Angelini, editor.
Summary: This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of a range of inflammatory, autoimmune, and idiopathic disorders. The opening section covers clinical tools with a particular focus on the role of electromyography and MRI imaging. The second section then presents the differential diagnosis of acquired myopathies based on clinical, electrophysiological, muscle biopsy, and serological criteria, discussing in detail relevant clinical conditions such as including myasthenia gravis, polymyositis, and statin myopathies. The third section examines acute and chronic immune-mediated neuropathies, multifocal motor neuropathies, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, paraneoplastic diseases, and diabetic polyneuropathy, offering clear guidance on available treatments and descriptions of the latest advances in immunotheraphy, drug therapy, and physiotherapy. This clinically oriented book also includes numerous illustrative figures and contributions by international authors from leading centers.
Contents:
Part I Diagnostic Tools
Autoantibodies in neuromuscular Disorders
Electromyography
Imaging of the Muscle
Peripheral of the Muscle
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Peripheral Nerve
Part II Clinical Myology Entities
The Spectrum of Inflammatory Myopathies: Dermatomyositis, Polymyositis and Inclusion-Body
Necrotizing Autoimmune myopathy
Statin Myopathy
Myasthenia Gravis
Endocrinological Myopathies
Vitamin D Deficiency in Muscle
Intensive Care Unit-Acquired Weakness
Experimental pharmacological interventions
Part III Neurogenic Disorders
Idiopathic Chronic Immune-Mediated Neuropathies: Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy
Immune Neuropathies
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Epidemiology and Risk
Paraneoplastic Diseases of the Peripheral Nervous System
Diabetic Neuropathy
Infectious Neuropathies
Toxic neuropathies.