"Evaluation and Treatment of Myopathies" ed. by Emma Ciafaloni, Patrick F. Chinnery, Robert C. Griggs

This book is written for the clinician who sees patients with muscle disease, or the patient with complaints of pain or weakness of muscle.

This new edition provides guidance on the next steps in diagnoses as well as the latest information on pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment, in an integrated manner, so as to give trainees, practicing clinicians and others who see neuromuscular disease perspective on how to evaluate and care for patients.

The book is divided in to 3 primary sections:
Approach to the Patient with Muscle Disease,
Specific Myopathies, and
General Strategies of Clinical Management.
Each section providing practical guidance to eliciting key histories and demonstrate findings upon examination.
New edition are organized to present information of clinical importance to provide the most up-to-date resource on the myopathies.

Contents
Foreword
Preface
Contributors
Evaluation and Treatment of Myopathies
Section 1 Approach to the Patient With Muscle Disease
1 Structure and Function of Normal Muscle
2 Evaluation of the Patient With Myopathy
3 Genetic Evaluation of the Patient and Family
Section 2 Specific Myopathies
4 The Muscular Dystrophies
5 Myofibrillar Myopathies
6 Congenital Myopathies
7 Metabolic Myopathies
8 Mitochondrial Myopathy
9 Muscle Channelopathies
10 Inflammatory Myopathies
11 Myopathies of Systemic Disease and Toxic Myopathies
Section 3 General Strategies of Clinical Management
12 Muscle Pain and Fatigue
13 Prevention and Management of Systemic Complications of Myopathies
Index