Handbook of Pediatric Epilepsy Case Studies, Second Edition

Name: Handbook of Pediatric Epilepsy Case Studies, Second Edition
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ISBN: 9781032283586

by Maria Augusta Montenegro, Jong M. Rho

2nd Edition

Publisher: CRC Press

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Print ISBN	9781032283586
eText ISBN	9781000885309
Publisher	CRC Press
Publishing Year	2023
Edition	2nd Edition
Language	English
Pages	424

Handbook of Pediatric Epilepsy Case Studies, Second Edition provides a clinical handbook focusing on pediatric epilepsy. The text presents case studies intended to support healthcare professionals in evaluating, diagnosing, and managing complex pediatric seizure disorders.

The handbook synthesizes key clinical topics, encompassing epilepsy genetics, developmental pharmacokinetics, and pediatric epilepsy surgery. Therapeutic coverage includes dietary therapies, vagus nerve stimulation, and neuromodulation devices such as responsive and deep brain stimulation. Detailed clinical evaluations cover status epilepticus, neonatal epilepsy syndromes, febrile seizures, Dravet syndrome, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, and temporal lobe epilepsy. The text also addresses malformations of cortical development, focal cortical dysplasia, infantile epileptic spasms syndrome, and refractory status epilepticus.

Organized chronologically from the neonatal period through adolescence, the handbook links clinical observations directly to patient age. This age-based structure supports clinicians seeking to examine specific pediatric epilepsy syndromes within their corresponding developmental stages.

Chapter 1: A Pediatric Epilepsy Primer
Chapter 2: Epilepsy Genetics Primer
Chapter 3: Developmental Pharmacokinetics: Principles and Practice
Chapter 4: Dietary Therapies for Epilepsy
Chapter 5: Vagus Nerve Stimulation Therapy
Chapter 6: Neuromodulation Devices: Responsive Neurostimulation and Deep Brain Stimulation
Chapter 7: Epilepsy Surgery in Children
Chapter 8: Status Epilepticus
Chapter 9: Focal Cortical Dysplasia
Chapter 10: Malformations of Cortical Development
Chapter 11: Self-Limited Neonatal Epilepsy Syndromes
Chapter 12: Self-Limited (Familial) Infantile Epilepsy
Chapter 13: Early Myoclonic Encephalopathy (Ohtahara Syndrome)
Chapter 14: Early Myoclonic Encephalopathy
Chapter 15: Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (Neonatal Seizures)
Chapter 16: Epilepsy of Infancy with Migrating Focal Seizures
Chapter 17: Febrile Seizures
Chapter 18: Genetic Epilepsy with Febrile Seizures Plus (GEFS+)
Chapter 19: Myoclonic Epilepsy of Infancy
Chapter 20: Dravet Syndrome
Chapter 21: Glucose Transporter-1 Deficiency Syndrome
Chapter 22: Infantile Epileptic Spasms Syndrome
Chapter 23: Gelastic Seizures
Chapter 24: Intractable Epilepsy after Herpes Simplex Encephalitis
Chapter 25: Refractory Status Epilepticus
Chapter 26: Primary Mitochondrial Epilepsies
Chapter 27: Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
Chapter 28: Sturge–Weber Syndrome
Chapter 29: Self-Limited Epilepsy with Centrotemporal Spikes (Benign Rolandic Epilepsy)
Chapter 30: Self-Limited Epilepsy with Autonomic Seizures (Panayiotopoulos Syndrome)
Chapter 31: Childhood Occipital Visual Epilepsy
Chapter 32: Photosensitive Occipital Lobe Epilepsy
Chapter 33: Childhood Absence Epilepsy
Chapter 34: Epilepsy with Myoclonic Absence
Chapter 35: Lennox–Gastaut Syndrome
Chapter 36: Epilepsy with Myoclonic-Atonic Seizures (Doose Syndrome)
Chapter 37: Landau–Kleffner Syndrome
Chapter 38: Developmental/Epileptic Encephalopathy with Spike-and-Wave Activation in Sleep (D/EE-SWAS)
Chapter 39: Epilepsy with Eyelid Myoclonia (Jeavons Syndrome)
Chapter 40: Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis
Chapter 41: Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
Chapter 42: Febrile Infection-Related Epilepsy Syndrome (FIRES)
Chapter 43: New-Onset Refractory Status Epilepticus (NORSE)
Chapter 44: Low-Grade Developmental and Epilepsy Associated Brain Tumors
Chapter 45: Rasmussen's Encephalitis
Chapter 46: Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy
Chapter 47: Epilepsy with Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizures Alone
Chapter 48: Juvenile Absence Epilepsy
Chapter 49: New-Onset Seizure in an Adolescent Female
Chapter 50: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Chapter 51: Unverricht–Lundborg Disease
Chapter 52: Reflex Seizures
Chapter 53: Sleep-Related Hypermotor Epilepsy
Chapter 54: Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures