| Description |
1 online resource |
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Practical issues in geriatrics |
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Practical issues in geriatrics.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1: Imaging Techniques in Geriatric Patients -- 1.1 Introduction: The Delicate Balance of Imaging in the Elderly -- 1.2 Imaging Modalities -- 1.2.1 Plain Radiography in Geriatric Patients -- 1.2.2 Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DXA) in Geriatric Patients -- 1.2.3 Ultrasound in Geriatric Patients -- 1.2.4 Multidetector Spiral Computed Tomography Scan in Geriatric Patients -- 1.2.5 Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Geriatric Patients -- 1.2.6 Interventional Radiology (IR) in Geriatric Patients -- References |
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2: Neurodegenerative Diseases in Geriatric Patients -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Neuroradiology and Its Role in Primary Neurodegeneration -- 2.3 Structured Reporting in Primary Neurodegeneration: Good Practice -- 2.3.1 Brain Atrophy -- 2.3.2 White Matter Lesion Burden -- 2.3.3 Cerebral Microbleeds Burden -- 2.3.4 Structured Reporting Checklist -- 2.4 Most Common Primary Neurodegenerative Disorders in Elderly and Neuroradiological Clues for Diagnosis -- 2.4.1 Tauopathies -- 2.4.1.1 Alzheimer Disease (AD) -- 2.4.1.2 Corticobasal Degeneration (CBD) |
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2.4.1.3 Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD) -- 2.4.1.4 Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) -- 2.4.2 Synucleinopathies -- 2.4.2.1 Disease with Lewy Bodies (DLB) -- 2.4.2.2 Multiple Systemic Atrophy (MSA) -- 2.4.2.3 Parkinson Disease (PD) -- 2.4.3 Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy (CAA) -- 2.4.4 Others -- 2.4.4.1 Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) -- 2.4.4.2 Huntington Disease -- 2.4.4.3 Sporadic Adult-Onset Degenerative Ataxia -- 2.4.4.4 Late-Onset Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation (NBIA) -- References -- 3: Neurovascular Emergencies in Geriatric Patients -- 3.1 Introduction |
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3.2 Ischemic Stroke -- 3.3 Nontraumatic Intracranial Hemorrhage -- 3.3.1 Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH) -- 3.3.2 Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (SAH) -- 3.4 Traumatic Intra-axial Brain Injures (TBI) -- 3.4.1 Posttraumatic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (t-ESA) -- 3.4.2 Cerebral Contusion (PTBCs) -- 3.4.3 Post-traumatic Intracerebral Hematomas (t-ICH) -- 3.4.4 Traumatic Axonal Injury (TAI) -- 3.5 Extra-axial Hemorrhages -- 3.5.1 Epidural Hematoma -- 3.5.2 Subdural Hematoma (SDH) -- 3.6 Cerebral Venous Thrombosis -- References -- 4: Head and Neck in Geriatric Patients -- 4.1 Ear |
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4.1.1 Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media -- 4.1.1.1 Extracranial Complication -- Coalescent Mastoiditis -- Subperiosteal Abscess -- Petrositis -- Labyrinthitis -- Facial Nerve Involvement -- Gradenigo's Syndrome -- 4.1.1.2 Intracranial Complications -- Otogenic Brain Abscess -- Sinus Thrombophlebitis -- 4.1.2 Malignant Otitis Externa -- 4.1.3 Hearing Loss and Cognitive Decline -- 4.1.3.1 Osseointegrated Auditory Implants -- 4.1.3.2 Cochlear Implantation -- 4.2 Nose -- 4.2.1 Rhinosinusitis -- 4.2.2 Inverted Papilloma -- 4.2.3 Dacryocystitis -- 4.3 Skin Tumors |
| Summary |
This book addresses in a structured and multidisciplinary way the medical issues related to aging, paying particular attention to the role of diagnostic imaging in the field of cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, respiratory, neurological, urogenital and gastrointestinal diseases. The progressive increase of the average age of the population, of life expectancy and the improvement of the quality of life are common phenomena in many countries of the World. Over the years, the management of older persons seems to have had an increasing impact both on the socio-economic and on the medical-health level. Medicine, in all its branches, has in fact focused more and more on the health conditions of the elderly patient and its protection and, in this context, due to the increasing progress in the field of technology and imaging methods, the radiologist occupies a front-line position. Unlike the young or middle-aged patients, the elderly need special care and attention, especially because of the involutive-degenerative senile processes they have to face, which must be taken into account to avoid incurring into misdiagnosis. Radiology, in fact, aims more and more at developing imaging techniques that are on the one hand satisfactory and comprehensive, but at the same time that do not represent any risk and/or obstacle for the elderly patient. The aim of this book is to provide the radiologist, and not only, with an adequate and complete geriatric preparation, thus to improve the diagnostic-therapeutic management of those patients who, to date, constitute the most conspicuous part of the medical-health users. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 31, 2023) |
| Subject |
Geriatric radiology.
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Older people -- Diseases -- Imaging
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Geriatrics -- methods
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Aged
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Geriatric radiology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Guglielmi, G. (Giuseppe), 1957- editor.
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Maas, M. (Mario), editor.
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| ISBN |
3031148770 |
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9783031148774 |
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