Engel, Jerome
The Treatment of Epilepsy
- The text is compiled by a group of internationally renowned editors and contributors and is now in full color and extensively illustrated
- The first two sections cover the background to, and principles of, treatment in different clinical situations
- Section three comprises a series of systematic reviews of contemporary drug therapy, devoting one chapter to each anti-epileptic drug and covering all clinically-relevant aspects
- Section four focuses on the surgical options, devoting individual chapters to each of the modalities of presurgical assessment and to each surgical operation or approach
- This 4th edition is extensively revised incorporating the many recent developments in therapy, and comprises 81 chapters from world experts from 18 countries
Keywords: Simon Shorvon Emilio Perucca Jerome Engel Jr The Treatment of Epilepsy Epilepsy Neurology Neurological Neurosurgery Anti-epileptic drugs AEDs International League of Epilepsy Pediatric dosing American Academy of Neurology American Epilepsy Society International Epilepsy Conference Pharmacokinetic Acetazolamide Adrenocorticotropic hormone and corticosteroids Benzodiaze-pines used in epilepsy Brivaracetam Carbamazepine Eslicarbazepine acetate Ethosuximide Felbamate Gabapentin Lacosamide Lamotrigine Levetiracetam Oxcarbazepine Perampanel Phenobarbital
barbiturates
Phenytoin
Piracetam
Pregabalin
Retigabine
Rufinamide
Stiripentol
Tiagabine
Topiramate
Valproate ,  ,  ,  ,  ,
Vigabatrin
Zonisamide
Epilepsy syndromes
Childhood epilepsy
Adult epilepsy
, Epilepsy- Author(s)
- Engel, Jerome
- Perucca, Emilio
- Shorvon, Simon D.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2016
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 4
- Page amount
- 1072 pages
- Category
- Medicine, Health Care, Mode
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781118936986
- Printed ISBN
- 9781118937006