Guillain-Barre Syndrome

From Diagnosis to Recovery

Gareth J. Parry, Joel S. Steinberg (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2007
Demos Medical Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-932603-56-9 (ISBN)

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Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) is a disorder in which the body's immune system attacks part of the peripheral nervous system. Feelings of tingling and weakness increase in intensity until the muscles cannot be used at all and the patient is almost totally paralysed. No one knows why Guillain-Barre strikes some people and not others, or what sets the disease in motion. What we do know is that GBS is now the most common cause of acute paralysis in Western countries since the virtual elimination of Poliomyelitis with vaccination programmes.

Guillain-Barre Syndrome, co-authored by a survivor of this illness, addresses all aspects of this condition, including initial symptoms, diagnostic evaluation and criteria, general and illness specific treatments and typical outcomes. Fortunately, most GBS patients have a good recovery, but the pathway to this goal can be slow and scary. This book covers a wide range of issues including:

Features unique to GBS such as pain without injury and other abnormal sensations
Workplace adjustment with incomplete recovery
Intensive care unit management
Practical caregivers guidelines
The rehabilitation process
Sexual dysfunction, and much more.

Guillain-Barre Syndrome is a comprehensive book, written in lay terms, covering everything from diagnosis to emotional issues. It is a book that stands alone.

This latest volume in the American Academy of Neurology Press Quality of Life Guide series is an essential tool for all individuals, families and caregivers coping with Guillain-Barre Syndrome.

Dr. Parry was born in New Zealand and obtained his medical degrees at the Otago University Medical School in Dunedin, New Zealand. He did his neurology residency at the University of Pennsylvania at the time of the GBS epidemic that followed the swine influenza vaccination program in 1976. That experience instilled in him an interest in GBS and related diseases that has stayed with him for his entire career. He currently lives in Minneapolis where he is a Professor of Neurology at the University of Minnesota.||Joel S. Steinberg, MD, PhD, FICA is Medical Director, Circulation Care and Vein Centers at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia and an officer of GBS/CIDP Foundation International in Narberth, Pennsylvania. As he was recovering from GBS, in 1982, he joined several patients and loved ones to form the Guillain-Barre Syndrome Foundation International. Dr. Steinberg has lectured and written extensively on various circulation and GBS issues, in the United States, Europe and India

What is Guillain-Barre Syndrome?; How does GBS affect you?; How is GBS diagnosed; What causes GBS?; How is GBS treated?: Supportive Treatments in the Acute Care Hospital; How is GBS treated?: Supportive Care: Rehabilitation and coming home; How is GBS treated?: Long-term rehabilitation and coming home; How is GBS treated? Immunotherapy.; Life after GBS; Chronic immune-mediated poyneuropathies.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.2007
Reihe/Serie	American Academy of Neurology Press Quality of Life Guides
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
ISBN-10	1-932603-56-5 / 1932603565
ISBN-13	978-1-932603-56-9 / 9781932603569
Zustand	Neuware