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This book is focused on a clinical-based diagnostic approach of autonomic dysfunctions, highlighting main diagnostic tools and pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies available nowadays. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is a subcomponent of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and dysfunction of one or more subdivisions of the ANS, when accompanying other diseases, is linked to a worse prognosis of the latter. In some circumstances or when severe, dysfunction of ANS itself results in symptoms and disability. A myriad of factors can cause autonomic dysfunction and more than one can concur even in the same patient; due to the expansive nature of the ANS, patients can be affected by a wide range of conditions.Each chapter is characterized by a similar structure and is devoted to a different dysfunction. For each pathology, the book offers the essential information on mechanisms of action, treatments and outcomes.Written by experts in the research of these disorders, the volume addresses primarily Neurologists, but will be a useful tool also for Gastroenterologists, Ophthalmologists, Urologists, Cardiologists and Internal medicine specialists.
Introductive Chapter of the Autonomic Nervous System
Orthostatic Hypotension
Autonomic Dysfunction in Hypertension
Autonomic Nervous System and Cardiac Arrhythmias
Autonomic Nervous System and Cerebrovascular Diseases
Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke
Primary Headaches and the Autonomic Nervous System
Gastrointestinal Autonomic Disorders
Autonomic Dysfunction in Sleep Disorders
Autonomic Dysfunctions in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Autonomic Involvement in Childhood Epilepsy
Pathophysiology, Clinical Presentation and Management of Neurogenic Bladder
Rehabilitation of Neurogenic Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunctions
Erectile Dysfunction
Autonomic Control of Breathing in Health and Disease
Neuropathic Pain
Pupillary and Lacrimation Alterations
Sweating Disorders
Autonomic Dysfunction Due to Toxic Agents and Drugs