Palliative Care and End of Life Care
(1) Wisdom Hospice, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, High Bank, Rochester, UK (2) University of Kent, Kent, UK (3) Academic Unit of Neurology, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Dublin, Ireland …
Dementia and Cerebrovascular Disease
(1) Department of Medical Gerontology, Trinity College, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland (2) Department of Medical Gerontology, Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland (3) Medical Gerontology, Trinity College,…
Clinical Trials in Neurodegeneration
Fig. 16.1 Targeted drug development in neurodegenerative diseases Once identified, candidate compounds are optimized for selectivity and affinity using in vitro models. Subsequently, testing in laboratory animals that model a…
Managing Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Neurodegenerative Alzheimer disease Frontotemporal dementia Dementia with Lewy bodies Huntington disease Corticobasal degeneration Progressive supranuclear palsy Multisystem atrophy Argyrophilic brain disease Wilson disease Hallevorden–Spatz disease Mitochondial diseases Kuf disease Metachromatic…
Medical Mimics of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Cervical spine MRI in Hirayama-disease In neutral neck position Inferior cervical cord segmental atrophy Segmental cord flattening High signal in the anterior aspect of the lower cervical cord Loss of…
Surgical Therapy of Neurobrucellosis
Fig. 21.1 An unusual presentation of unilateral brain, skull, and cutis abscess due to neurobrucellosis observed in a 64-year-old man, a country worker who gave no importance to the skin…
Brucellar Spondylitis as a Complication of Brucellosis
Fig. 12.1 Sagittal T1-weighted MRI shows posterior longitudinal ligament elevation (arrow) and marked enhancement of disk and vertebral end plate after gadolinium administration Fig. 12.2 (a, b) Sagittal T1-weighted MRI…
Epidural and Subdural Spinal Brucellosis
Fig. 15.1 Brucella colonies recovered on blood agar from blood culture of a patient with brucellosis (Courtesy of G.F. Araj, M.D.) Brucellosis-associated central nervous system involvement is called neurobrucellosis, and…
Medical Therapy of Neurobrucellosis
Fig. 20.1 Sagittal MRIs from a 62-year-old man with brucellar spondylodiscitis. (a) T1-weighted image showing irregularity and destruction of vertebral end plates and hypointensity at T11 to L2. (b) T2-weighted…
Imaging of Vertebral Brucellosis
Fig. 14.1 (a) Sagittal STIR FAST image of a male patient showing involvement of two segments. (b) Sagittal T2-weighted image of the same patient. Note the different stages of the…
