Pediatric Demyelinating Diseases of the Central Nervous System and Their Mimics

This collection of pediatric clinical cases focus on multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis and mimics.  Dedicated sections on diseases affecting the brain, brainstem, spinal cord and the optic nerve feature chapters that include the diagnostic work up, therapeutic management and case outcome.  Typical and atypical presentations of various pediatric demyelinating diseases also emphasize therapy response and those that breakthrough on treatment.  Filling a critical gap in the literature on inflammatory disorders of the central nervous system, all those that treat patients with these rare and challenging disorders will find this book extremely helpful for their daily clinical practice.

• Multiple sclerosis
• brainstem
• case based
• central nervous system
• optic nerve
• pediatric demyelinating diseases
• spinal cord

• Clinical Neurology and Pediatrics, Regional Pediatric MS Clinic at UCSF, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA

  Emmanuelle Waubant

• Division of Neurology and Developmental Neuroscience, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, USA

  Timothy E. Lotze

Emmanuelle Waubant, MD, PhD

Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics

University of California San Francisco

San Francisco, CA, USA

Timothy E. Lotze, MD

Associate Professor of Child Neurology

Department of Pediatrics; Division of Neurology and Developmental Neuroscience

Baylor College of Medicine / Texas Children’s Hospital   

Houston, TX, USA

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