Neuromuscular Spine Deformity (Hardcover)

I. Surgical and Medical Considerations
1. Preoperative Evaluation and Optimization
2. Nonoperative Management
3. Surgical Indications in Neuromuscular Scoliosis
4. Intraoperative Issues: Anesthesia, Neuromonitoring, Estimated Blood Loss
5. Unique Challenges with Scoliosis and Dislocated Hips
6. Predicting Complications: When to Operate or Not
II. Diagnosis Specific
7. Scoliosis in Cerebral Palsy
8. Surgical Treatment of Spinal Deformity in Myelomeningocele
9. The Patient with Spinal Cord Injury: Surgical Considerations
10. The Spine in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
11. Spinal Muscular Atrophy
12. Other Neuromuscular Conditions: Rett Syndrome, Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, and Friedreich's Ataxia
13. Neurosurgical Causes of Scoliosis
14. Sagittal Plane Spinal Deformity in Patients with Neuromuscular Disease
15. Spinal Deformity Associated with Neurodegenerative Disease in Adults
III. Surgical Techniques
16. Sacropelvic Fixation Techniques
17. Comparison of Unit Rods with Modular Constructs in Cerebral Palsy
18. Halo-Gravity Traction: An Adjunctive Treatment for Severe Spinal Deformity
19. Osteotomies: Ponte and Vertebral Column Resection
20. Growing Spine Options for Neuromuscular Scoliosis
21. Anterior Approaches to the Spine for Neuromuscular Spinal Deformity
IV. Postoperative Management and Complications
22. Incidence of Major Complications in Surgery for Neuromuscular Spine Deformity
23. Management of Early and Late Infection
24. Postoperative Intensive Care Unit Management
25. Reoperations: Instrumentation Failure, Junctional Kyphosis, and Cervical Extension
26. Health-Related Quality of Life in Neuromuscular Scoliosis
27. Baclofen Pump: Preoperative, Intraoperative, and Postoperative Management