Neurological Disorders Due to Systemic Disease (Book)

If you are a splitter, and you are still in the vanishing market for a desktop reference, you will be in heaven with this new book. The book is organized into 15 presenting clinical problems that may be due to underlying systemic illness, or to the treatments used for those illnesses: headache, encephalopathy, dementia, stroke, seizures, neuro-ophthalmology problems, neuro-otologic presentation, movement disorders, myelopathies, peripheral nerve disorders, neuromuscular junction disorders, myopathies, autonomic manifestations, and sleep disorders. The stated reason for this organization is that neurologists may often be the first to diagnose many patients with a previously undiagnosed systemic disorder, so one may need to review a chapter that lists all potential causes of the neurologic presentation. While this may still be one of the more intriguing aspects of neurologic practice, the prevalence of this circumstance is probably not that common. If your patient has systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and a neuropsychiatric presentation, then the page on SLE in the encephalopathy chapter is very useful. If, however, you want to know more about SLE and its neurologic manifestations, you must read portions of 9 chapters in this book.