CONTENTS

Contributors

Foreword

Preface

SECTION I: EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE

Chapter 1.     Approach to Patients with Neuromuscular Disease

Chapter 2.     Testing in Neuromuscular Disease

Chapter 3.     Muscle and Nerve Histopathology

Chapter 4.     Principles of Immunomodulating Treatment

Chapter 5.     The Rehabilitation of Neuromuscular Diseases

SECTION II: SPECIFIC DISORDERS

Chapter 6.     Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Chapter 7.     Hereditary Spastic Paraparesis

Chapter 8.     Spinal Muscular Atrophies

Chapter 9.     Other Motor Neuron Disorders

Chapter 10.   Disorders of Motor Nerve Hyperactivity

Chapter 11.   Charcot–Marie–Tooth Disease and Related Disorders

Chapter 12.   Other Hereditary Neuropathies

Chapter 13.   Guillain–Barré Syndrome and Related Disorders

Chapter 14.   Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy and Related Neuropathies

Chapter 15.   Vasculitic Neuropathies

Chapter 16.   Neuropathies Associated with Systemic Disease

Chapter 17.   Neuropathies Associated with Infections

Chapter 18.   Neuropathies Related to Nutritional Deficiencies

Chapter 19.   Neuropathies Associated with Malignancy

Chapter 20.   Toxic Neuropathies

Chapter 21.   Neuropathies Associated with Endocrinopathies

Chapter 22.   Idiopathic Polyneuropathy

Chapter 23.   Focal Neuropathies of the Upper Extremities and Trunk: Radiculopathies, Brachial Plexopathies, and Mononeuropathies

Chapter 24.   Focal Neuropathies of the Lower Extremities: Radiculopathies, Plexopathies, and Mononeuropathies

Chapter 25.   Autoimmune Myasthenia Gravis

Chapter 26.   Other Disorders of Neuromuscular Transmission

Chapter 27.   Muscular Dystrophies

Chapter 28.   Congenital Myopathies

Chapter 29.   Metabolic Myopathies

Chapter 30.   Mitochondrial Disorders

Chapter 31.   Myotonic Dystrophies

Chapter 32.   Nondystrophic Myotonias and Periodic Paralysis

Chapter 33.   Inflammatory Myopathies

Chapter 34.   Myopathies Associated with Systemic Disease

Chapter 35.   Toxic Myopathies

Chapter 36.   Neuromuscular Mimics

Index