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Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Explained: A Guide for Patients and Families
This book provides a valuable guide to understanding idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), which is a very complex and painful disease. It is a chronic, often disabling condition resulting in headaches, visual loss, and ringing in the ears. This condition was thought to be rare but is becoming much more common, especially as the population becomes more overweight. Patients with this condition often suffer from intractable headaches with poor quality of life. Very few physicians specialize in this condition, and as a result, there is almost no information or resources available to those trying to understand this condition. The text is designed to take very complex neurosurgical anatomy, principles, and treatments and reduce them down into simple principles. The book contains 12 chapters, each organized into distinct sections. All chapters also contain key points from those paragraphs to summarize useful take home messages.Written by an expert specializing in this debilitating condition, Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Explained serves as a valuable guide towards understanding and treating IIH. The ultimate goal is to empower patients and families with knowledge about the disease.
436 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 17, 2021
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November 26, 2023
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Honestly, this book probably explained the condition better than my doctors have, and I'm under the care of the best centre for excellence for this condition in the UK. Nothing against the NHS, they're rushed off their feet and they don't have time to explain absolutely everything to every patient.
It was dumbed down a little for the general reader, but I did really appreciate the cliff notes summary at the end of the chapters for the bits that went completely over my head.
It discussed the probable causes of this condition, the medication generally used to treat it, the mechanism of how the condition works and how it causes the condition (which was something that I found personally interesting), the side effects of the medication and the condition itself and the various treatments that are currently in use.
This was well worth a read and I'd recommend to either a sufferer or friends and family struggling to understand.
Honestly, this book probably explained the condition better than my doctors have, and I'm under the care of the best centre for excellence for this condition in the UK. Nothing against the NHS, they're rushed off their feet and they don't have time to explain absolutely everything to every patient.
It was dumbed down a little for the general reader, but I did really appreciate the cliff notes summary at the end of the chapters for the bits that went completely over my head.
It discussed the probable causes of this condition, the medication generally used to treat it, the mechanism of how the condition works and how it causes the condition (which was something that I found personally interesting), the side effects of the medication and the condition itself and the various treatments that are currently in use.
This was well worth a read and I'd recommend to either a sufferer or friends and family struggling to understand.
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