This exciting and comprehensive volume examines the past decade's clinical and scientific advances in treatment and management strategies for neuromuscular disorders. These developments, affecting current patient evaluation and management, have generated innovative diagnostic methods, new and effective therapies, and new management strategies in the field. This volume explains all the recent breakthroughs and presents them in a clinically relevant way. Chapters written by internationally recognized experts cover all the major neuromuscular diseases. Each chapter has three main sections: scientific background, practical application including diagnosis and treatment, and future directions for basic and clinical research
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1. Advances in Neuromuscular Disorders: Historical Perspective 2. Pathogenesis of ALS 3. Genetic Aspects of ALS 4. Motor Unit Estimate 5. Diagnostic Criteria and Outcome Measurement of ALS 6. Drug Therapy in ALS 7. Spinal Muscular Atrophies 8. Diabetic Neuropathy 9. Immune-Mediated Neuropathies 10. Genetically Determined Neuropathies and Plexopathies 11. Neuropathic Pain 12. Myasthenia Gravis 13. Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome 14. Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes 15. Metabolic Myopathies 16. Periodic Paralysis and Related Disorders 17. Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies 18. Dystrophinopathies 19. FSH Syndromes 20. Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophies 21. Myotonias 22. HIV Neuromyopathies 23. Critical Illness Neuromyopathie
