Status epilepticus : mechanisms and management / edited by Claude G. Wasterlain and David M. Treiman.
2006
RC372 .S769 2006eb
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Status epilepticus : mechanisms and management / edited by Claude G. Wasterlain and David M. Treiman.
ISBN
9780262285834 (electronic bk.)
0262285835 (electronic bk.)
9780262232456
0262232456
1423790278
9781423790273
0262285835 (electronic bk.)
9780262232456
0262232456
1423790278
9781423790273
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
Copyright
©2006
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 637 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Call Number
RC372 .S769 2006eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
616.8/53
Summary
"Interest in status epilepticus--the most extreme form of epilepsy, involving continuous seizures--has surged in the last 20 years. Since 1979 there have been over 4,000 publications on the subject, including more than 1,700 in the last five years. No other text provides such a comprehensive review of the recent advances in the field of status epilepticus. The book focuses on the two areas in which progress has been most rapid: basic mechanisms and treatment. There is now a greater understanding of the mechanisms and complications of status epilepticus at the molecular level, which should eventually lead to improved therapy, and treatment strategies today have a greater sense of urgency because of the realization that neuronal apoptosis and necrosis can be triggered very quickly. After an overview of history, classification, and epidemiology, the contributors consider clinical phenomenology, biological markers, pathophysiology, brain damage, epileptogenesis, therapeutic principles, pharmacology, and therapeutic management. Their contributions are equally divided between studies of basic mechanisms in animal models and clinical studies, so that the reader can turn easily from the reductionist experiment that isolates a small component of status to the complex clinical situation in which these principles can translate into therapeutic action. The goal is to provide a scientific rationale for clinical decisions while developing therapeutic attitudes that are firmly grounded in pathophysiology"--MIT CogNet.
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