BRAIN AND SPINE SURGERY IN THE ELDERLY

1. Rapid Growth in the Elderly Population of the World
2. A Brief Physiology of the Aging
3. Neurological Assessment and Neurocognitive Evaluation of the Elderly
4. Neurosurgical Anesthesia for the Elderly: Is Age Really Just a Number?
5. Perioperative Neurotoxicity in the Elderly
6. Central Nervous System Infections in the Elderly
7. Intracranial Meningiomas in the Elderly
8. Brain Gliomas in the Elderly
9. Pituitary Adenomas
10. Vestibular Schwannoma Surgery in the Elderly
11. Management of Primary CNS Lymphoma in Elderly Patients
12. Management of Brain Metastases: Distinctive Features in the Elderly
13. Degenerative Spine Disease
14. Spinal Injuries of the Elderly
15. Extradural Vertebral Tumors in the Elderly
16. Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumors
17. Intradural Extramedullary Spinal Tumors
18. Spinal Infections
19. Traumatic Brain Injury in the Elderly
20. Chronic Subdural Haematoma in the Elderly
21. Subarachnoid Haemorrhage in the Elderly
22. Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage in the Elderly
23. Swollen Middle Cerebral Artery Stroke in the Elderly
24. Trigeminal Neuralgia in the Elderly
25. Hydrocephalus in the Elderly: Diagnosis of Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
26. Hydrocephalus in the Elderly: Surgical Management of Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
27. Ethics in Neurosurgery for the Elderly

This unique and richly illustrated volume presents the state of the art in the comprehensive management of major neurosurgical diseases in the elderly (aged 65 and over). It explores all of the common neurosurgical pathologies affecting elderly patients, and emphasizes the paramount importance of tailored management strategies for quality of life. It highlights updated techniques for anaesthesia and critical care, as well as minimally invasive neurosurgical methods intended for this specific group of patients. Radiosurgery treatment is also discussed, in particular for brain tumours.
In western societies, the proportion of elderly citizens has nearly reached 20%, and shows no signs of slowing down. The management of neurosurgical conditions in this particular population requires specific multidisciplinary strategies. To address this situation, a team of internationally respected contributors accurately describe degenerative and traumatic spinal diseases, which account for the majority of admissions among the elderly, as well as brain tumours and intracranial haemorrhages, aspects that are raising new ethical issues.
The book mainly addresses the needs of neurosurgeons and geriatric neurologists, but also neuro-oncologists and neuro-anaesthesists working with elderly patients, as well as students in these disciplines.

Features
• Explores for the first time the specific neurosurgical conditions involved with the elderly
• Provides updated techniques focusing on improvements in anaesthesia and critical care for the elderly
• Focuses on minimally invasive neurosurgical techniques and radiosurgery
• Geared towards neurosurgeons, geriatric neurologists, neuro-oncologists and neuro-anaesthesists

Authors
Moncef Berhouma MD, MSc is a consultant neurosurgeon at the University Hospital of Lyon (France). He is an associate professor of neurosurgery and surgical instructor at the European association of neurosurgical societies (EANS). He holds a Master of science in philosophy of neuroscience. He performed his research fellowship in the skull base surgery laboratory at Ohio University in USA (2011). He is the author of more than 50 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, more than 7 book chapters and 2 books. His main interests are minimally-invasive skull base surgery and geriatric neurosurgery. Pierre Krolak-Salmon, MD, PhD is a neurologist and geriatrician at the University Hospital of Lyon (France), Director of Clinical Research Memory Centre of Lyon and of the Clinical Research Centre “Elderly, Brain and Frailty”, head of the Social Cognition and Cognitive Disorders research group at Neuroscience Center of Lyon. He completed his Neurosciences Master in 1999 and his PhD on brain dynamics of facial emotional expression recognition in 2004. He also studied at the Welcome Trust in London, UK and Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, USA. He currently has an active teaching role at the University Claude Bernard in Lyon, in the fields of geriatrics, neurology, neuroscience and neuropsychology. His main areas of research interest include biomarkers (CSF and neuroimaging) and predictors of autonomy loss in dementia; social cognition and emotion recognition; clinical neurology and geriatrics.