Brain and Spine Surgery in the Elderly

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.

“This text is written primarily for neurosurgeons and, to a lesser extent, neurologists, neurointensivists, and neuroanesthesiologists. It is appropriate for trainees of these disciplines at all levels. … This is a timely and visionary text that can augment the practice of neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroanesthesiologists, and neurointensivists … .” (Ryan M. Naylor and William E. Krausss, Neurosurgery, Vol. 81 (6), December, 2017)

• FOREWORD.- PREFACE: Epistemology, rationale and demographics of geriatric neurosurgery.- PART 1 – NEUROLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE ELDERLY - Chapter 1. Physiology of the ageing nervous system.- Chapter 2. Neurological assessment and neurocognitive evaluation of the elderly.- PART 2 – NEUROANESTHESIA AND CRITICAL CARE - Chapter 3. Neuroanesthesia of the elderly.- Chapter 4. Perioperative neurotoxicity in the elderly.- PART 3 – INTRACRANIAL TUMORS - Chapter 5. Intracranial meningiomas.- Chapter 6. Brain gliomas.- Chapter 7. Pituitary adenomas.- Chapter 8. Vestibular schwannomas.- Chapter 9. Brain metastases.- Chapter 10. CNS Lymphoma.- PART 4 – SPINAL PATHOLOGIES - Chapter 11. Degenerative cervical spine.- Chapter 12. Degenerative lumbar spine.- Chapter 13. Spinal injuries of the elderly.- Chapter 14. Vertebral tumors of the elderly.- Chapter 15. Intramedullary spinal cord tumors.- Chapter 16. Intradural extramedullary spinal tumors.- Chapter 17. Spinal infections.- PART 5 – HEAD INJURY - Chapter 18. Traumatic brain injury in the elderly.- Chapter 19. Chronic subdural hematoma.- PART 6 – NEUROVASCULAR - Chapter 20. Subarachnoid hemorrhage in the elderly.- Chapter 21. Intracerebral and intraventricular hemorrhage.- Chapter 22. Malignant pseudo-tumoral stroke.- PART 7 – HYDROCEPHALUS IN THE ELDERLY.- PART 8 – TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA.- PART 9 –  ETHICAL ISSUES IN NEUROSURGICAL ELDERLY PATIENTS.- APPENDIX