1st Edition

Neurology and Pregnancy Clinical Management

Edited By Michael S. Marsh, Lina Nashef, Peter Brex Copyright 2012
280 Pages 99 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

280 Pages 99 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

280 Pages
by CRC Press

Pregnancy complicated by neurological disorders is a challenging area for both obstetricians and neurologists. Treatment of the maternal condition often needs to be adjusted because of concerns for the fetus, and some conditions have a major impact on the method, mode, and timing of delivery. Many of the clinical problems that arise in pregnant women with a neurological disease have not been the... Read more

Foreword
Nigel Leigh

Foreword
Catherine Nelson-Piercy

Preface

Editorial Note on the FDA Classification of Drugs and Pregnancy

Contributors

General Issues

Neurogenetics and Pregnancy
Dragana J. Josifova

Imaging during Pregnancy
Francessa Wilson and Jozef Jarosz

Intrauterine Imaging, Diagnosis, and Intervention in Neurological Disease
William Dennes

Disposition of Drugs in Pregnancy: Anti-Epileptic Drugs
Dave Berry

Therapeutics and Breastfeeding
Thomas W. Hale

Neuroanaesthesia in Pregnancy
James Arden

Neurocritical Care for the Pregnant Woman
Clemens Pahl

Neurovascular Intervention during Pregnancy: Cerebral Aneurysms and Vascular Malformations
Daniel Walsh

Analgesia and Anaesthesia in Neurological Disease and Pregnancy
Jayaram K. Dasan

Psychiatric and Neuropsychiatric Disorders in Pregnancy and the Post-Partum Period
John Moriarty and Trudi Seneviratne

Ethical and Legal Issues
Hannah Turton and Peter Haughton

Neurological Disease

Pre-Eclampsia/Eclampsia and Peri-Partum Convulsions
Michael S. Marsh

Blackouts Arising in Pregnancy
Robert Delamont and Nicholas Gall

Epilepsy and Pregnancy
Lina A. M. Nashef, Nicholas Moran, Sara Lailey, and Mark P. Richardson

Headache in Pregnancy
Anish Bahra

Infections in Pregnancy
Iskandar Azwa, Michael S. Marsh, and David A. Hawkins

Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
Paul Riordan-Eva

Stroke in Pregnancy
Victoria A. Mifsud

Vascular Malformations of the Brain in Pregnancy
David P. Breen, Catharina J. M. Klijn, and Rustam Al-Shahi Salman

Pituitary Disease in Pregnancy
Dorota Dworakowska and Simon J. B. Aylwin

Neuro-Oncology in Pregnancy
Fiona Harris, Sarah J. Jefferies, Rajesh Jena, Katherine E. Burton, Lorraine Muffett, and Neil G. Burnet

Pregnancy and Movement Disorders
Yogini Naidu, Prashanth Reddy, and K. Ray Chaudhuri

Multiple Sclerosis and Pregnancy
Peter A. Brex and Pauline Shaw

Nutritional Deficiencies in Pregnancy
Roy A. Sherwood

Spinal Disease and Pregnancy
Matthew Crocker and Nicholas Thomas

Neurological Disability and Pregnancy
David N. Rushton

Peripheral Nerve Diseases
Robert D. M. Hadden

Muscle Disease and Myasthenia in Pregnancy
Fiona Norwood

Index

Biography

Michael Marsh, FRCOG, MD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, King’s College Hospital London, UK

Lina Nashef, FRCP, MD, MBChB, Department of Neurology, King’s College Hospital London, UK

Peter Brex, MRCP, Department of Neurology, King’s College Hospital London, UK

"...a solid add to an obstetrician's library and valuable source material for neurologists caring for pregnant patients." — Doody's Review Service