Botulinum Toxin Treatment in Clinical Medicine A Disease-Oriented Approach /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jabbari, Bahman (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Neurology .; Internal medicine.; Pharmacology.; Neurology.; Internal Medicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

This book provides BoNT treatment menus for symptom-oriented therapy in 14 different disease categories. Each chapter starts with a brief description of the disease and its current treatment followed by an evidenced-based review of BoNT efficacy for the symptom(s) of that disease. The level of effic...

Table of Contents:

• Molecular structure, mechanism of function, toxin serotypes, immunogenicity, and safety issues
• Parkinson's disease. Indications: Sialorrea, blepharospasm, focal painful dystonia of hands or feet, rigidity
• Atypical Parkinson Syndromes and other neurodegenerative disorders: Sialorrea, Hyperhidrosis, Blepharospasm, Focal painful dystonia, Rigidity
• Multiple Sclerosis. Indications: Spasticity, Focal dystonia, Neuropathic pain (trigeminal neuralgia)
• Stroke- Indications: Post-stroke spasticity, Painful focal dystonia, Sialorrhea , Hemifacial spasms
• Cerebral palsy- Indications: Rigidity, Spasticity, Painful dystonia, Sialorrhea
• Orthopedic disorders- Indications: local painful arthropathies, local muscle cramps after knee or hip replacement
• Gatroentologic disorders- Indications: Achalasia, Spasm of sphincter of Oddi, Painful rectal spasms (anismus)
• Breast and Gynecologic Disorders: Pelvic pain, Vulvodynia, Local post-surgical and Post-radiatiion pain in breast cancer
• Migraine and other headaches
• Neuropathic pains (post-herpetic neuralgia, post-traumatic neuralgia, plantar fasciitis, piriformis syndrome, entrapment neuropathic pain)
• Ophthalmological disorders (blepharospasm, strabismus)
• Dermatological disorders (psoriasis , intractable pruritus)
• Traumatic brain or spinal cord injury Indications: Spasticity, Painful focal muscle cramps and Spasms
• Diseases with metal accumulation in the brain- Wilson disease and neuroferritinopathies Indications: Sialorrhea, Hyperhidrosis, Spasticity, Rigidity, Blepharospasm, Focal painful cramps and spasms
• Future prospect and potentials. .