Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. The Role of Clinical Neurophysiology in the Diagnosis of Peripheral Neuropathies
(Elisabeth Chroni, Department of Neurology, University of Patras, Greece)
Chapter 2. Role of Genetic Testing in Peripheral Neuropathy
(Charles H. Whitaker, University of Connecticut Health Center Farmington, Connecticut, USA and others)
Chapter 3. Hereditary Peripheral Neuropathies
(Meriem Tazir, Mounia Bellatache and Sonia Nouioua, Service de Neurologie, CHU Mustapha Bacha, Algiers, Algeria, and others)
Chapter 4. Guillain–Barré Syndrome
(Akiyuki Hiraga, Masahiro Mori and Satoshi Kuwabara, Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan)
Chapter 5. Evolving Concepts in the Pathogenesis of Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP)
(Paolo Ripellino, Thomas Fleetwood, Roberto Cantello and Cristoforo Comi, Department of Translational Medicine, Section of Neurology and Interdisciplinary Research Centre of Autoimmune Diseases (IRCAD), Amedeo Avogadro University, Novara, Italy)
Chapter 6. Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy in Children: A Pediatric Neurologist’s Perspective
(Christian Ionita, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center/University of Connecticut Health Center, Connecticut, USA)
Chapter 7. Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance and Polyneuropathy
(Kam Newman, Ihab El-Hemaidi, Jagar A. Jasem and Mojtaba Akhtari, Section of Transfusion Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA and others)
Chapter 8. Peripheral Neuropathies in HIV Infection
(Maurizio Osio, Caterina Nascimbene, Alessandra Vanotti and Cristoforo Comi, Neurology Department. University of Milan, “L. Sacco” Hospital, Milan, Italy and others)
Chapter 9. Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy (FAP): Clinical Features, Pathophysiology, and Treatment
(Mª Teresa Tomás, Helena Santa-Clara, Élia Mateus and Estela Monteiro, Exercise and Health Laboratory, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Human Performance, Lisbon, Portugal and others)
Chapter 10. Peripheral Neuropathy in Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
(Consuelo Valles-Antuna and Jesus M. Fernandez-Gomez, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)
Chapter 11. The Surgical Treatment of Peripheral Neuropathies: A Plastic Surgeon’s Perspective
(Sean Wolfort, Surgery Department, Florida State University, and University of Central Florida, Florida, USA)
Index