Neuromuscular Disease : A Case-Based Approach (Paperback)

Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: approach to the patient; Part I. Motor Neurone Diseases: Case 1. Classical amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Case 2. ALS with frontotemporal dementia; Case 3. Primary lateral sclerosis; Case 4. Progressive muscular atrophy; Case 5. Kennedy disease; Case 6. Spinal muscular atrophy type III, Kugelberg-Welander disease; Case 7. Post-polio syndrome; Case 8. Spinal dural fistula; Part II. Neuropathies: Case 9. Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A; Case 10. Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy; Case 11. Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2A, mitofusinopathy; Case 12. X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease; Case 13. Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type 4; Case 14. Guillain-Barre syndrome; Case 15. Miller-Fisher syndrome; Case 16. Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy; Case 17. Multifocal motor neuropathy; Case 18. Peripheral nerve hyperexcitability syndrome, Morvan's syndrome; Case 19. Vasculitic neuropathy; Case 20. Neuropathy and ataxia caused by IgM gammopathy; Case 21. Polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, M-protein and skin changes; Case 22. Subacute sensory paraneoplastic neuropathy and ganglionopathy; Case 23. Neurolymphomatosis; Case 24. Diabetic neuropathy; Case 25. Alcohol neuropathy; Case 26. HIV neuropathy; Case 27. Lyme radiculoneuritis; Case 28. Lepromatous neuropathy; Case 29. Toxic iatrogenic neuropathy; Case 30. Idiopathic neuralgic amyotrophy; Case 31. Small nerve fibre neuropathy; Case 32. Critical illness polyneuropathy; Case 33. Chronic idiopathic axonal polyneuropathy; Part III. Neuromuscular Junction Disorders: Case 34. Classic myasthenia gravis; Case 35. Myasthenia gravis with autoantibodies to MuSK; Case 36. Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome; Case 37. Congenital myasthenic syndrome: slow channel syndrome; Part IV. Myopathies: Case 38. Becker muscular dystrophy; Case 39. Caveolinopathy, including limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 1C; Case 40. Limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2A, calpainopathy; Case 41. Limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2I, fukutin-related protein deficiency; Case 42. Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy; Case 43. Facio-scapulo-humeral dystrophy; Case 44. Miyoshi myopathy, dysferlinopathy, limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2B; Case 45. Distal myopathy with rimmed vacuoles, hereditary inclusion body myopathy; Case 46. Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy; Case 47. A woman with a family history of muscle weakness and severe cardiac complaints, desminopathy; Case 48. Late-onset congenital myopathy caused by a mutation in the RYR1 gene, central core disease; Case 49. Bethlem myopathy; Case 50. Myotonic dystrophy type 1, Curschmann-Steinert disease; Case 51. Myotonic dystrophy type 2, proximal myotonic myopathy; Case 52. Becker myotonia, chloride channelopathy; Case 53. Glycogen storage disease type 2, Pompe disease; Case 54. Glycogen storage disease type 5, McArdle disease; Case 55. Mitochondrial disease: progressive ophthalmoplegia; Case 56. Myositis; Case 57. Sporadic inclusion body myositis; Case 58. Sarcoid myopathy; Case 59. Hypothyroid myopathy; Video legends; Index.