HANDBOOK OF EPILEPSY TREATMENT
(2005)
Dr. Shorvon
(1)
The
clinical forms and causes of epilepsy
(4)
ILAE
classification of seizure type
(11) ILAE
classification of the epilepsies and epilepsy syndromes
(13) Clasification
of partial seizures by anatomical site of seizure onset
(17) The age-related
epilepsy syndromes
(26) The causes of
epilepsy. Epilepsy due to genetic or developmental
causes
(42) Epilepsy due
to acquired causes
(54) Seizure
precipitants
(56) The reflex
epilepsies
(57) Acute
symptomatic seizures
(60) The
principles of drug treatment. Why treat epilepsy?
(66)
Pharmacokinetic principles of antiepileptic drug
treatment
(73) Choice of
drugs for different seizure types
(81) Treatment of
specific epilepsy syndromes
(85) Principles of
treatment of newly diagnosed patients
(90) Principles of
treatment of patients with established active epilepsy
(93) Treatment of
patients with epilepsy in remission
(95) Treatment of
epilepsy in children
(98) The treatment
of epilepsy in the elderly
(101)The treatment
of epilepsy in women
(108)The treatment
of psychiatric disorders in epilepsy
(110)Complementary
and alternative therapy in epilepsy
(112)Genetic
counselling in epilepsy
(114)The
antiepileptic drugs: Carbamazepine (123)Clobazam
(127)Clonazepam (130)Ethosuximide
(133)Gabapentin
(137)Lamotrigine (142)Levetiracetam (147)Oxcarbazepine
(151)Phenobarbital (157)Phenytoin (166)Pregabalin (170)Primidone
(72)Tiagabine (177)Topiramate (183)Valproate (190)Vigabatrin
(195)Zonisamide
(199)Other
drugs used in the treatment of epilepsy:
Acetazolamide (201)Benzodiazepines, Diazepam (202)Clorazepate,
Nitrazepam (203)Corticosteroids and adrenocorticotropic
hormone ACTH, Felbamate (206)Mesuximide, Piracetam (208)Rufinamide
(211)The
emergency treatment of epilepsy. The inmediate
management of a seizure
(212)Status
epilepticus
(225)Antiepilepic
drugs used in status epilepticus
(231)The
surgical treatment of epilepsy. Introduction
(232)Pre-surgical
assessment-general points
(236)Surgery in
epilepsy arising in the mesial temporal lobe
(249)Surgery in
epilepsy arising in extra-temporal regions and in the
temporal neocortex
(259)Surgery where
no lesion in apparent on neuroimaging
(260)
Hemispherectomy, hemispherotomy and other large
resections
(263)Corpus
callosectomy (corpus callosum section, corpus
callosotomy
(64)Multiple
subpial transection
(265)Vagus nerve
stimulation
(269)Other
functional surgical procedures
(270)The
organization of epilepsy surgery care: the epilepsy
surgery centre
(271)Pharmacopoeia
(278)Furher
reading
(293)Index
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