Acquired Neuromuscular Disorders: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Treatment (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Foreword.- Introduction.- Part I Diagnosis of acquired myopathies.- Auto-Antibodies in Neuromuscular Disorders.- Electromyography.- Imaging of the Muscle.- Peripheral Nerve Ultrasound.- Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Peripheral Nerve.- Part II Clinical Entities.- The Spectrum of Inflammatory Myopathies: Dermatomyositis, Polymyositis, Necrotizing Myositis and Inclusion Body Myositis.- Necrotising Myopathy.- Statin Myopathy.- Myasthenia Gravis.- Acquired Autoimmune Rippling Muscles with Myasthenia Gravis.- Endocrinological Myopathies.- Vitamin D deficiency in Muscle.- Intensive Care Unit Acquired Weakness.- Part III Neurogenic disorders.- Idiopathic Chronic Immune-Mediated Neuropathies: Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy and Multifocal Motor Neuropathy.- GBS Immune Neuropathies.- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - Epidemiology and Risk Factors.- Paraneoplastic Diseases of the Peripheral Nervous System.- Diabetic Neuropathy.- Infectious Neuropathies.- Toxic Neuropathies.