Neurological Aspects of Spinal Cord Injury

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Weidner, Norbert (Editor), Rupp, Rüdiger (Editor), Tansey, Keith E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurology.; Rehabilitation.; Medicine & Public Health.

This clinically focused book aims to cover for the first time all of the neurological aspects relevant to the diagnosis and treatment of spinal cord disease. Furthermore, innovative neurorestorative therapeutic strategies - aiming for repair of the damaged spinal cord and/or reorganization of the re...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1 Basics: Epidemiology
• Neuroanatomy
• Pattern of Neurological Dysfunction
• Natural Disease Course
• Part 2 Non-traumatic spinal cord injury: Ischemia
• Neuroimmunology
• Cord Compression (metastasis, hemorrhage, empyema, spondylodiscitis)
• CNS tumors (glioma, ependymoma)
• Pearls: myelopathy
• Part 3 Diagnostics: Blood/CSF workup
• Spinal Cord Imaging
• Spinal Cord Neurophysiology
• Part 4 Neurological Complications: Pain
• Spasticity
• Syringomyelia
• Neurogenic respiratory failure
• Part 5 Autonomic nervous system dysfunction: Neuro Internal Medicine (cardiovasc, endocrine)
• Neurourology
• Neurogastroenterology
• Part 6 Therapy: Neurorehabilitation – upper extremity restauration
• Neurorehabilitation – lower extremity restauration
• Neuroregeneration
• Neuroprotection
• Neuroprosthetics
• Translation – relevance of SCI animal models
• Translation - clinical trial design.