Pet owner educational atlas. Neurology

Authors: Mínguez Molina, Juan José

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

Release date: 2019
ISBN: 9788417225841
Pages: 76
Binding: Hard cover. Wire-o
Format: 22 x 28

Achieving the owners acceptance and implication, both in the required diagnostic tests and the therapeutic compliance, is an essential aspect for the optimal resolution of any clinical case. To this end, it is necessary that he or she understands what is happening to the pet and what diagnostic and treatment guidelines are being established by the veterinary surgeon. In order to make the explanations easier and take profit from the time dedicated to them, the practitioner can rely on this book, where anatomical and physiological aspects of the nervous system are gathered, as well as the main techniques and diagnostic tools that can be applied and the most common pathological conditions and neurological diseases. The clarity and accuracy of the illustrations on every sheet, accompanied by the texts of an expert in this issue like Juan J. Mínguez, will be an important support point for the veterinary surgeon in those cases presenting a neurological problem.

Table of contents

1. Anatomy and physiology of the nervous system
• Nervous system (CNS and PNS)
• Nervous system (CNS and PSNS)
• Brain
• Spinal cord
• Cranial nerves
• Reflex arc
• Micturition reflex

2. Clinical evaluation and diagnostic tests
Examination
• Alterations in mental status and level of consciousness
• Abnormal postures
• Postural reactions
• Cranial nerve assessment
• Evaluation of hindlimb and forelimb spinal reflexes
• Other spinal reflexes
Diagnostic tests and techniques
• Collection of cerebrospinal fluid
• Myelography
• Electrophysiological tests
• Other tests

3. Pathologies of the CNS
Epilepsy and related syndromes
• Epilepsy
• Cauda equina syndrome
• Central vestibular syndrome
• Peripheral vestibular syndrome
Compressive lesions of the spinal cord
• Atlantoaxial instability
• Caudal cervical spondylomyelopathy (wobbler syndrome)
• Vertebral malformations
• Herniated disc
• Spinal cord injuries
• Vertebral tumours
Non-compressive lesions of the spinal cord
• Vascular myelopathies
• Aortic thromboembolism
• Infectious inflammation
• Noninfectious inflammation
• Syringohydromyelia
• Spinal dysraphism
• Degenerative myelopathy
Encephalopathy
• Cerebrovascular accident
• Inflammatory encephalopathies
• Hydrocephalus
• Caudal occipital malformation syndrome (COMS)
• Subarachnoid diverticulum
• Hepatic encephalopathy
• Traumatic brain injury
• Brain tumours
• Cognitive dysfunction syndrome
Cerebellar pathologies
• Disorders of the cerebellum
• Cortical cerebellar degeneration
• Idiopathic cerebellitis
Neuro-ophthalmology
• Vision process and its responses
• Ophthalmoscopy and other diagnostic tests
• Horner’s syndrome

4. Pathologies of the PNS
• Classification of pathologies of the PNS
• Inflammatory neuropathies
• Idiopathic facial neuropathy
• Acute idiopathic polyradiculoneuritis
• Lesions of the sciatic and radial nerves
• Brachial plexus avulsion
• Lumbar compression syndrome
• Metabolic neuropathies
• Myasthenia gravis
• Myositis

5. Elimination disorders
• Urination disorders
• Defecation disorders

6. Neurosurgery: surgical techniques
• Rostrotentorial and caudal fossa craniotomy
• Transfrontal and suboccipital craniotomy
• Hemilaminectomy
• Dorsal laminectomy
• Ventral cervical spinal cord decompression
• Corpectomy
• Disc fenestration
• Neurosurgery-associated complications
• Postoperative care

About the Author

Juan José Mínguez Molina