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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.
List of contents
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.
About the author
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.
