Part I. Diagnostic Dilemmas In Adult Patients : -- 1. Coma with Fever -- 2. Agitated Delirium -- 3. Post Carotid Endarterectomy Neurological Deficit -- 4. Persistent Migraine Aura -- 5. Contraindication to Lumbar Puncture -- 6. Diffuse Weakness -- 7. Subacute Paraparesis in an Elderly Patient -- 8. Isolated Vertigo -- 9. Syncope -- 10. Acute Monocular Visual Loss -- 11. Thunderclap Headache -- 12. Febrile Delirium with Rigidity -- Part II. Therapeutic Dilemmas In Adult Patients : -- 13. Acute Stroke after 3 Hours -- 14. Cardioembolic Stroke with Contraindication to Anticoagulation -- 15. Progressive Posterior Circulation Ischemia -- 16. Recurring Transient Ischemic Attacks -- 17. Intractable Status Epilepticus -- 18. Severe Intractable Headache -- 19. Acute Lumbar Radiculopathy -- 20. Post-traumatic Paraplegia -- 21. Acute Severe Facial Pain -- Part III. Neuropsychiatric, Ethical, and Legal Dilemmas : -- 22. Neurological Patients and Decision-making Capacity -- 23. Functional Paraparesis -- 24. Nonepileptic Spells -- 25. Intracranial Mass Lesion in HIV Infection -- 26. First Seizure -- Part IV. Pediatric Dilemmas In Neurology : -- 27. Severe Headache in a Child with Migraine -- 28. Febrile Seizure -- 29. Acute Ataxia in a Child -- 30. Confusion in Childhood with Possible Abuse -- 31. Concussion -- 32. Acute Stroke in an Adolescent
Summary
This volume is designed as a resource for clinicians at all levels of training in all fields of medicine who treat patients with urgent and emergent neurological syndromes. The book uses a novel approach which focuses on the 'clinical impasse' that so often occurs in complex cases, and emphasizes the creative intellectual process clinicians relish
