Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780470672679
Year: 2013
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 232


Description:


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.