1st Edition
Neurology and Pregnancy Clinical Management
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 subject of clinical trials, so management must often be based on what published evidence is available and a good understanding of the likely interactions between the condition and pregnancy and vice versa.
The editors and contributors represent a team with considerable experience in this area. They offer their "best practice" advice as how to treat the mother effectively, ensuring fetal safety, as well as embracing a philosophy that the pregnancy of a woman with a neurological disease should be made as enjoyable and rewarding for her as is possible.
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
