Inflammatory and autoimmune disorders of the nervous system in children / edited by Russell C. Dale and Angela Vincent ; [editor Hilary Hart].

Other author Dale, Russell C.
Other author Vincent, Angela.
Other author Hart, Hilary.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon : Mac Keith, 2010.
Descriptionxvi, 504 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Subjects

SeriesClinics in developmental medicine ; no. 184-185
Clinics in developmental medicine ; nos. 184-185. ^A4378
Contents Introduction / Russell C. Dale and Angela Vincent -- Inflammation and autoimmunity : a nervous system perspective / Fabienne Brilot -- New international definitions for central nervous system demyelination syndromes in children / Russell C. Dale and Silvia N. Tenembaum -- Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis / Silvia N. Tenembaum and Tanuja Chitnis -- Childhood multiple sclerosis / Yann Mikaeloff, Russell C. Dale and Marc Tardieu -- Multiple sclerosis : an adult perspective / Gavin Giovannoni and Samuel Jackson -- Transverse myelitis / Michael Levy and Douglas Kerr -- Optic neuritis in children / Brenda L. Banwell and Raymond Buncic -- Sydenham chorea / Francisco Cardoso -- Paediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infection / Tanya Murphy and Ana Segarra-Brechtel -- Opsoclonus-myclonus syndrome / Michael R. Pranzatelli and Elizabeth Tate -- Other immune-mediated extrapyramidal movement disorders / Russell C. Dale -- Post-infectious ataxia and cerebellitis / Deepak Gill -- Rasmussen encephalitis / Christian G. Bien and Jan Bauer -- Neuropsychiatric manifestations of childhood systemic lupus erythematosus and antiphospholipid syndrome / Liora Harel and Emily von Scheven --
Contents Central nervous system vasculitis / Jorina Elbers and Susanne M. Benseler -- Macrophage activation syndromes / Marc Tardieu and Nizar Mahlaoui -- Aicardi-Goutières syndrome and related disorders / John B.P. Stephenson and Yanick J. Crow -- Neonatal-onset multisystem inflammatory disorder/chronic infantile neurological cutaneous syndrome / Simon R. Ling and P. Ian Andrews -- Folate receptor autoimmunity in cerebral folate deficiency / Vincent T. Ramaekers and Edward V. Quadros -- Innate immune system and inflammatory mechanisms in neurodegenerative disorders / Ming Lim, Mylvaganam Jeyakumar, and Francis Platt -- Glutamate receptor autoantibodies in epilepsy, systemic lupus erythematosis and encephalitis / Mia Levite and Yonatan Ganor -- Autoimmune channelopathies and other antibody-associated neurological disorders / Angela Vincent and Russell C. Dale -- Childhood autoimmune myasthenia / Jeremy Parr, Sandeep Jayawant, Camilla Buckley, and Angela Vincent -- Guillain-Barré syndrome and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy in childhood / Monique M. Ryan, John D. Pollard, and Robert A. Ouvrier -- Dermatomyositis and polymyositis / Elizabeth Stringer and Brian M. Feldman -- Inflammatory mechanisms in genetic neuromuscular disorders / James G. Tidball and Michelle Wehling-Henriks.
Local noteLaupus-WCP
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN9781898683667
ISBN1898683662