Neuroinfections [Paperback]

Neuroinfectionspresents 35 subjects, each with a different neurologic infectious or inflammatory disorder. A short vignette provides salient clinical symptoms and signs, laboratory studies, spinal fluid and imaging findings for each patient. A highly focused discussion leads the reader to the final diagnosis. Important features of the history, neurologic examination, findings on CSF and imaging are emphasized. There is no other book that provides a careful case description that includes all the neurologic features of 19 neurologic diseases produced by virus, as well as cases of bacterial meningitis and other infections produced by spirochetes, protozoans and prions, as well as inflammatory diseases of the nervous system of unknown etiology. A unique feature of the book is that every patient described is a real-time case that the author has seen or on whom he provided consultation. Anyone who reads every case in this book will know the essentials needed to diagnose and care for patients with infectious or inflammatory diseases of the nervous system.

SECTION I Virus infections
1. Varicella Zoster Virus Vasculopathy
2. Aseptic Meningitis
3. Herpes Simplex Virus Encephalitis
4. HIV Encephalitis
5. Ramsey Hunt Syndrome
6. West Nile Virus Meningoencephalitis
7. Progressive Outer Retinal Necrosis
8. Rabies
9. Cytomegalovirus Polyradiculoneuropathy
10. Varicella Zoster Virus Myelopathy
11. Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis
12. Eastern Equine Encephalitis
13. Human Herpesvirus-6 Encephalitis
14. Zoster Sine Herpete
15. Human T-lymphotropic Virus-1 (HTLV-1) Myelopathy
16. Herpes Simplex Virus-2 Meningitis
17. HIV Vacuolar Myelopathy
18. Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
19. Postherpetic Neuralgia
SECTION II Bacterial, Spirochetal, Protozoan and Prion Disorders of the Nervous System
20. Listeria Rhombencephalitis
21. Neurosyphilis
22. Tuberculous Meningoencephalitis
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