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Headaches - Couverture souple

Peatfield, Richard; Dodick, David W.

 
9781903734216: Headaches
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1903734215 ISBN 13 : 9781903734216
Editeur : Health Press Limited, 2002

Synopsis

The management of people suffering with headaches forms a substantial part of the workload of the family physician and the practising neurologist. While some patients can perform normally using self-medication, headache can be a symptom of a potentially serious illness and disabling headaches, either continuous or as intermittent attacks, require careful assessment and treatment. 'Fast Facts: Headaches' equips the primary care physician with the knowledge required to accurately investigate, assess and treat (or refer) the patient presenting with disabling primary headache. • Enables physicians to distinguish between the benign and potentially life-threatening condition • An expert guide to differential diagnosis • Reviews current processes of assessment, summarises current thinking on pathogenesis and covers management of common forms of disabling headache • Key points are summarised at each chapter-end and clear, simple diagrams and tables support clinical information Contents: • Differential diagnosis • Epidemiology • Clinical features of migraine and tension headaches • Mechanisms of migraine • Precipitating causes • Acute treatment • Prophylactic treatment • Chronic daily headache • Cluster headache; Post-traumatic headache • Future trends

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The management of people suffering with headaches forms a substantial part of the workload of the family physician and the practising neurologist. While some patients can perform normally using self-medication, headache can be a symptom of a potentially serious illness and disabling headaches, either continuous or as intermittent attacks, require careful assessment and treatment. Fast Facts: Headaches equips the primary care physician with the knowledge required to accurately investigate, assess and treat (or refer) the patient presenting with disabling primary headache. Enables physicians to distinguish between the benign and potentially life-threatening condition An expert guide to differential diagnosis Reviews current processes of assessment, summarises current thinking on pathogenesis and covers management of common forms of disabling headache Key points are summarised at each chapter-end and clear, simple diagrams and tables support clinical information Contents: Differential diagnosis; Epidemiology; Clinical features of migraine and tension headaches; Mechanisms of migraine; Precipitating causes; Acute treatment; Prophylactic treatment; Chronic daily headache; Cluster headache; Post-traumatic headache; Future trends.

Biographie de l'auteur

Richard Peatfield Consultant Neurologist West London Neurosciences Centre Charing Cross Hospital London, UK David W. Dodick Associate Professor Mayo Medical School Consultant Neurologist Department of Neurology Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale Arizona, USA

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Éditeur
Health Press Limited
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1903734215
ISBN 13 
9781903734216
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
104
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Personne responsable
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