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Parkinson's Disease Treatment Guide for Physicians


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Roughly 1.9 million people are afflicted with Parkinson's disease and, according to the Parkinson's Disease Foundation, that number is on the rise! Parkinson's Disease Treatment Guide for Physicians will comprehensively cover Parkinson's disease (PD), including diagnosis, testing, prognosis, and possible causes. Its primary focus will be on treatment, specifying appropriate drugs, doses, and common side effects. It will address not only the treatment of motor problems (tremor, gait, etc.), but everything else that routinely arises in a PD practice, including osteoporosis prevention, blood pressure, sexual, bowel, or bladder dysfunction, dementia, depression, common skin rashes, and more. This book will mirror Dr. Ahlskog's earlier book, The Parkinson's Treatment Book: Partnering with Your Doctor to Get the Most from Your Medications (2005). Each chapter in the current book will follow the same outline and cover nearly the same material as in each chapter of the earlier patient book, but it will be more succint and direct, with many teaching points summarized wtih bullet points or in small tables. In effect, the clinician and patient can both be reading, or have read, the same material.

Table of Contents:
Contents Contributors 1: Background 2: Clinical Basics: Understanding and Examining the Motor System 3: Basic Neuropathology and Neuroanatomy of Parkinson's Disease 4: Clinical Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease 5: Natural Progresion of Parkinson's Disease Over the Lifetime 6: Conditions Mistaken for Parkinson's Disease 7: Efficient Testing, Including Brain Imaging 8: Etiology and Epidemiology of Parkinson's Disease 9: Strategies for Slowing PD Progresion 10: Overview: Available Drugs for Motor Problems of PD 11: Choosing the Initial Drug (Confronting Controversies) 12: Starting Treatment with Carbidopa/Levodopa 13: Starting Treatment with Dopamine Agonist Drugs 14: Parkinsonism-plus Syndromes, Levedopa Failures, and Refractory Tremor: Treatment Options 15: Problems that May Surface During the Firt Few Years of Levodopa Treatment 16: Initial Dopamine Agonist Therapy: Problems Surfacing After the First Year 17: Levodopa Adjustments to Treat Motor Instability: Motor Fluctuations, Dyskinesias 18: Adjunctive Drugs for Motor Fluctuations and Dyskinesias 19: Non-Motor Symptons Requiring Dopamine Replacement Therapy 20: Insomnia, Somnolence, and Other Sleep Disorders 21: Orthostatic Hypotension and Other Causes of Dizziness 22: Depression 23: Dementia 24: Hallucinations, Delusions, and Pathologic Behaviors 25: Dysphagia, Drooling, and Dysarthia 26: Constipation, Delayed Gastric Emptying 27: Urinary Symptons 28: Sexual Dysfunction, Estrogen, Menstrual Cycles 29: Other Common Problems: Edema, Rashes, Visual Symptons 30: Diets, Nutrition, and Osteoporosis Prevention 31: Exercise, Physical Therapy, and an Active Lifestyle 32: Societal and Occupational Issues: Caregivers 33: Surgery: Non-neurologic and PD Operations, including DBS 34: Future PD Treatment: Directing Resources and Counseling Patients 35: Clinical Rating Scales and Patient Resources Index

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"This is a valuable resource for practicing physicians who are charged with caring for patients with Parkinson's disease. The writing is clear and concise with a very practical approach to patient care that addresses every facet of the disease and its treatment."--Doody's "Parkinson's Disease Treatment Guide for Physicians offers the opportunity for a second opinion or at least a primary learning source...This work is clearly written and well referenced with up-to-date discussions that rival nearly anything out there in manuscript form." --Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780195371772
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 400
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Width: 160 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0195371771
  • Publisher Date: 26 Mar 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 752 gr


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