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pathology, diagnosis and management of disease
xvii, 716 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Metabolic myopathies : an overview -- Review of skeletal muscle injuries -- Inflammatory myopathies -- Muscle crush syndrome : pathogenesis and management of casualties -- Muscle injury in athletics -- Cancer cachexia -- Effect of hypoxia on skeletal muscle -- Biochemical aspects of aging of skeletal muscle injuries -- Steroid misuse in athletes : effects on skeletal muscle -- Skeletal muscle changes in heart disease -- Skeletal muscle dysfunction in renal failure -- The effect of non-insulin dependent diabetes on skeletal muscle -- The effect of magnesium and potassium deficiencies on skeletal muscle -- Mitochondrial myopathies -- Myopathies involving glycogen and carbohydrate metabolism -- Neuromuscular aspects of fatigue associated with physical exertion -- Alcoholic myopathy -- HIV myopathy : pathology, diagnosis and treatment -- Myasthenia gravis -- Effects of scleroderma on skeletal muscle -- Ion channel diseases of skeletal muscle -- Inclusion body myositis -- Desmin-related disorders -- AMP deaminase (myoadenylate deaminase) deficiency -- Capillary no-flow -- Mechanisms of skeletal muscle pain -- Skeletal muscle and cytokines in sepsis and severe injury -- Skeletal muscle infections -- Skeletal muscle in liver disease -- Free radical mediated injury in skeletal muscle -- Histochemical staining techniques for examination of skeletal muscle -- Immunohistochemical methods for examining skeletal muscle -- Methods for examinations of antibodies in skeletal muscle disease -- Electron microscopic methods for examination of skeletal muscle -- Muscle pain evoked by intraneural stimulation and recording from sympathetic and sensory muscle nerves -- Skeletal muscle biopsy techniques : practice and procedures -- Electromyography -- Magnetic resonance imaging of muscle pathology -- Skeletal muscle mass : regional and whole-body measurement methods -- Assessment of muscle function by isometric tests -- Dual energy X-ray absorptimetry -- Diagnostic electron microscopy -- Computed tomography as a diagnostic tool for skeletal muscle injury and pathology -- Biochemical markers of skeletal muscle disease -- Localized muscle impedance measurements -- Assessing muscle pain -- Strategies for increasing optimal function of skeletal muscle in the aged -- Nutritional therapies for improving skeletal muscle function and recovery in pathologies : an overview -- Endocrine therapies for reducing skeletal muscle wasting : theory and practice -- Dynamic myoplasty -- Therapeutic effects of exercise in heart disorders -- Management of muscle pathology in the critically ill (sepis and mutiple organ failure) -- Immunomodulation in skeletal muscle disease -- Treatment of myasthenia gravis -- Pharmacological preconditioning of skeletal muscle against infarction -- Management of skeletal muscle after stroke -- Skeletal muscle relaxants -- Gene transfer in skeletal muscle
edited by Victor Preedy, Timothy Peters.
Includes bibliographical references and index.