Epilepsy in Women

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About this eBook

Epilepsy requires careful management and monitoring through a woman’s life

Epilepsy is a complex disease. The hormonal changes women experience, both day-to-day menstrual fluctuations and the longer waxes and wanings of a reproductive lifetime, make the management of epilepsy even more complicated. At some point, the well-being of a second person, a fetus, might also have to be taken into account.

Epilepsy in Women
provides a detailed guide to this challenge. The wide-ranging approach encompasses all aspects of a woman’s life including:
  • Social and psychological impacts
  • The impact in reproductive life
  • Contraception
  • Pregnancy
  • Fetal health and long term developmental outcomes
  • Lactation
  • Menopause

Each practical chapter begins and ends with a case study that demonstrates the more general challenge. The authors develop themes to provide clinical guidance based on evidence and experience.

Written and edited by an international cast of experts, Epilepsy in Women provides crucial tips and recommendations for neurologists and gynecologists who need to be aware of the subtle effects of epilepsy on woman’s life.

About the author

Cynthia L. Harden, MD, Chief of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Care Institute, North Shore LIJ Health System and Professor of Neurology, Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, USA.

Sanjeev V Thomas, MD, Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum 695 011, India and Fulbright Visiting Professor, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA.

Torbjörn Tomson, MD, Professor of Neurology, especially epileptology, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, and consultant/senior physician at Department of Neurology, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden.

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