There are unique challenges to the care of women with epilepsy, including the gender-specific influences that women may experience owing to their age, hormonal status, and co-morbidities. Many healthcare providers are not informed about the unique issues facing women with epilepsy. This new edition comprehensively reviews the impacts of epilepsy at different life-stages, from adolescence, through pregnancy and to menopause, highlighting appropriate therapies. The book covers topics including managing patients' fertility and preconception counselling, obstetric and fetal monitoring and post-partum seizure management. Chapters on drug-drug interactions, the effect of hormones and anti-epileptic drugs have been thoroughly updated according to new guidelines. Information is presented practically, with bullet points allowing readers to access take home messages easily. This is a highly practical, up-to-date and concise manual for the practical approach in caring for women with epilepsy aimed at general practitioners, midwives, obstetricians, general neurologists, and anesthetists.
A practical handbook reviewing the gender-specific effects of epilepsy in women throughout their life. Covering new anti-epileptic drugs, fertility management and the effect of hormones on epilepsy, this updated second edition is a key resource for general practitioners, obstetricians and general neurologists caring for patients with epilepsy.
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Reviews the gender-specific effects of epilepsy in women throughout their life and presents practical guidelines for management.
1. Epidemiology of women with epilepsy Kristi McIntosh, Nathalie Jette
and Leah Blank;
2. Neruopsychiatric Issues for Women with Epilepsy Dilip
Koshy and Benjamin Tolchin;
3. Sleep-related comorbidities in women with
epilepsy Milena K. Pavlova and Véronique Latreille;
4. Hormonal influences in
women with epilepsy Suchitra Joshi and Jaideep Kapu;
5. Antiseizure
medications and hormones Mona Sazgar;
6. Genetic epilepsies in females Paula
Teixeira Marques and Danielle Andrade;
7. Gender issues in childhood and
adolescence onset epilepsies Arezoo Rezazadeh, Katherine Muir and Tadeu
Fantaneanu;
8. Catamenial epilepsy Alexa King and Elizabeth Gerard;
9.
Fertility in women with epilepsy Lidia Di Vito, Mark Quigg and Barbara
Mostacci;
10. Contraception & pre-pregnancy counseling Naveed Chaudry and
Emily Johnson;
11. Teratogenicity and antiseizure medications Anna Serafini;
12. Seizure management in pregnancy Ginette Moores;
13. Obstetric and fetal
monitoring in women with epilepsy John Snelgrove and Mathew Sermer;
14.
Neuroimaging in pregnancy and epilepsy Paula Alcaide Leon;
15. Obstetrical
anesthesia Fatima Zahir, Jonathan Waters and Janet Waters;
16. Postpartum
seizure management and safety issues for women with epilepsy Natalia Rincon
and Naymee J. Velaz-Ruiz;
17. Breastfeeding and use of antiseizure
medications Abrar O. Al-Faraj and Trudy D. Pang;
18. Management of the
neonate: clinical examination and surveillance Carlos Ivan Salazar, Eugene Ng
and Cecil D. Hahn;
19. Ageing, menopause and bone health in women with
epilepsy Alison Pack and Genna Waldman.
Esther Bui is Assistant Professor in the Division of Neurology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto. P. Emanuela Voinescu is a physician at Department of Neurology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, and is affiliated to Harvard University Medical School.
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