Eppie M. Yiu is a neurologist based at Flemington Road, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
Neurology covers a huge range of conditions that affect the brain, nerves, spinal cord, and how muscles move. In day-to-day care, Eppie looks after people dealing with problems like ataxia, movement and balance issues, and long-term nerve or muscle weakness. This can include hereditary types such as Friedreich ataxia, spinocerebellar ataxias, and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
At times, care also involves conditions that can come on with sudden or fast changes, like encephalitis, transverse myelitis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, and Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. There are also inflammatory and immune-related nerve conditions, including neuromyelitis optica and optic neuritis. Some patients have spasticity or hemiplegia, depending on where the nervous system injury or inflammation shows up.
Eppie’s work also involves epilepsy and other brain-based seizures. That can include myoclonic epilepsy, infantile epilepsy with migrant focal crisis, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), and West syndrome. Alongside this, there’s help for movement disorders and muscle control problems, such as cramp-fasciculation syndrome, drug induced dyskinesia, and broader movement disorder needs.
For families, paediatric neurological issues are a big part of what’s listed in this profile. This includes spinal muscular atrophy (SMA types 2 and 3), alternating hemiplegia of childhood, and riboflavin transporter deficiency neuronopathy. There are also genetic and growth-related neurological conditions, like Friedreich related issues, Fragile X syndrome, and growth hormone deficiency (GHD) in both general and paediatric settings. Some rarer causes are also included, like A-T (ataxia-telangiectasia), teratoma of the mediastinum, and Zika virus disease.
Experience: the conditions noted above reflect the kinds of cases Eppie works with across movement, epilepsy, neuromuscular and nerve disorders. Education and research details aren’t listed in this profile, and there aren’t any clinical trial details shown here.
