Volpe's Neurology of the Newborn, 7th Edition

by Joseph J. Volpe, MD and Terrie E. Inder, MB, ChB, MD

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ISBN: 9780443105135

Publication Date: 05-01-2024

Page Count: 1240

Imprint: Elsevier

List Price: $209.99

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Key Features
- Provides clear, comprehensive coverage of neonatal neurology in Dr. Joseph Volpe’s own legendary, readable manner—for a masterful, cohesive source of answers to any question that arises in your practice
- Brings the latest science into the clinical setting, with an emphasis on translating new knowledge to the infant’s bedside
- Offers comprehensive updates with summary tables and text to reflect major advances in the study of hemorrhage; new insights into molecular genetics and molecular characterization of brain tumors; significant advances in drugs and the developing nervous system; and much more
- Includes new chapters on fetal neurology which address the importance of understanding and investigating the maternal-fetal origins of neonatal disease, as well as new chapters on neurodevelopmental follow-up, inflammation, and neurology in low-resource settings
- Contains more than 1,000 illustrations: clinical and pathological specimens, key experimental findings, schematics, algorithms, anatomical drawings, and neuroimaging throughout, as well as numerous tables and boxes that synthesize key points
- An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud
Contents

UNIT I: HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
1. Neural Tube Development
2. Prosencephalic Development
3. Ventricular Development, Ventriculomegaly, and Hydrocephalus in the Fetus and Newborn
4. Normal and Abnormal Development of the Posterior Fossa Structures
5. Neuronal Proliferation
6. Neuronal Migration
7. Organizational Events
8. Myelination Events

UNIT II: FETAL NEUROLOGY
9. Specialized Diagnostic Studies for Assessment of the Fetal Central Nervous System
10. Placental Conditions With Consequences for the Fetal Brain
11. Maternal and Fetal Conditions With Consequences for the Fetal Brain

UNIT III: NEUROLOGICAL EVALUATION
12. Neurological Examination: Normal and Abnormal Features
13. Specialized Neurological Studies
14. Neurodevelopmental Follow-Up of High-Risk Newborns

UNIT IV: SEIZURES
15. Neonatal Seizures

UNIT V: HYPOXIC-ISCHEMIC AND RELATED DISORDERS
16. Pathophysiology: General Principle
17. Inflammation and the Newborn Brain
18. Encephalopathy of Prematurity: Neuropathology
19. Encephalopathy of Prematurity: Pathophysiology
20. Encephalopathy of the Preterm—Clinical Aspects
21. Intrauterine and Intrapartum Assessment of the Fetus
22. Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy in the Term Infant: Neuropathology
23. Hypoxic-Ischemic Injury in the Term Infant: Pathophysiology
24. Hypoxic-Ischemic Injury in the Term Infant: ClinicalNeurological Features, Diagnosis, Imaging, Management, and Prognosis
25. Stroke in the Newborn

UNIT VI: INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE
26. Intracranial Hemorrhage: Subdural, Subararachnoid, Subpial, Intraventricular (Term Infant), Miscellaneous
27. Cerebellar Hemorrhage
28. Preterm Intraventricular Hemorrhage/Posthemorrhagic Hydrocephalus

UNIT VII: METABOLIC ENCEPHALOPATHIES
29. Glucose
30. Bilirubin and Brain Injury
31. Amino Acids
32. Organic Acids

UNIT VIII: DEGENERATIVE DISORDERS
33. Degenerative Disorders of the Newborn

UNIT IX: NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS
34. Evaluation, Special Studies
35. Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita
36. Levels Above Lower Motor Neuron to Neuromuscular Junction
37. Muscle Involvement and Restricted Disorders

UNIT X: INTRACRANIAL INFECTIONS
38. Viral, Protozoan, and Related Intracranial Infections
39. Bacterial and Fungal Intracranial Infections

UNIT XI: PERINATAL TRAUMA
40. Injuries of Extracranial, Cranial, Intracranial, Spinal Cord, and Peripheral Nervous System Structures

UNIT XII: INTRACRANIAL MASS LESIONS
41. Brain Tumors and Vein of Galen Malformations

UNIT XIII: DRUGS AND THE DEVELOPING NERVOUS SYSTEM
42. Passive Addiction and Teratogenic Effects

UNIT XIV: NEUROLOGY IN LOW RESOURCE SETTINGS
43. Neonatal Neurology in the Low Resource Setting for the Term and Preterm Newborn
Authors

Joseph J. Volpe, MD, Bronson Crothers Professor of Neurology, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School, Neurologist-in-Chief, Emeritus, Boston Children’s Hospital, Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine, Harvard Institutes of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA and Terrie E. Inder, MB, ChB, MD, Mary Ellen Avery Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Chair, Department of Pediatric, Newborn Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA