Fetal Medicine
Basic Science and Clinical Practice
- 3rd Edition - February 9, 2019
- Latest edition
- Authors: Pranav P. Pandya, Ronald Wapner, Dick Oepkes, Neil Sebire
- Language: English
Covering pertinent basic science and offering today’s most authoritative guidance on clinical management, Fetal Medicine, 3rd Edition, is a must-have resource for obstetric… Read more
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Covering pertinent basic science and offering today’s most authoritative guidance on clinical management, Fetal Medicine, 3rd Edition, is a must-have resource for obstetricians and other healthcare professionals involved in care of the fetus. An international team of expert contributors delivers the knowledge and background you need to effectively diagnose and treat fetal disorders – everything from prenatal screening and diagnostic tests to common and rare prenatal conditions, early pregnancy loss, ethical issues, and much more.
Key features
Key features
- Focuses on fetal medicine throughout, bringing you today’s most reliable information in both basic science and clinical topics
- Offers updated information from cover to cover, including new coverage of genetics, embryology, and clinical management
- Features new self-assessment questions, new video clips, and new images throughout – for a total of nearly 1,000 photographs and line drawings, as well as more than 150 quick-reference tables
- Details fast-changing developments in fetal medicine, including advances in ultrasound imaging, cytogenetics, molecular biology, and biochemistry
- Helps you learn and retrieve complex information quickly thanks to succinct, highly structured text; key points at the beginning of each chapter; and concise chapter summaries
- Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices
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Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
Section 1: Early Fetal Development
1. Early Concepts and Terminology
Patricia Collins
2. Cellular Mechanisms and Embryonic Tissues
3. Staging Embryos in Development and the Embryonic Body Plan
4. Teratology
Sarah G. Obican and Anthony R. Scialli
5. Early Pregnancy Failure
Davor Jurkovic and Kuhan Rajah
Section 2: The Placenta
6. The Immunology of Implantation
Ashley Moffett, Y.W. Loke and Andrew Sharkey
7. Development of the Placenta and Its Circulation
Caroline E. Dunk, Berthold Huppertz and John C. Kingdom
8. Placental Function in Maternofetal Exchange
Colin Sibley and Mark Dilworth
9. Placental Pathology and Implications for Fetal Medicine
Neil J. Sebire and John C. Kingdom
Section 3: Fetal Physiology and Pathology
10. Development of the Heart and Cardiovascular System in Relation to Cardiac Abnormalities
Michael Ashworth
11. Lung Growth and Maturation
Richard Harding, Annie R.A. McDougall and Stuart B. Hooper
12. Development of the Kidneys and Urinary Tract in Relation to Renal Anomalies
Paul J.D. Winyard
13. The Perinatal Postmortem Examination
J. Ciaran Hutchinson, Susan C. Shelmerdine and Neil J. Sebire
Section 4: Epidemiology
14. Epidemiologic and Research Methods in Fetal Medicine
Cande V. Ananth and Alan T. Tita
Section 5: Ethics
15. Ethical Issues in Maternal-Fetal Medicine,
Wybo J. Dondorp and Guido M. de Wert
Section 6: Prenatal Screening and Diagnosis
16. Principles of Screening
Joshua I. Rosenbloom and George A. Macones
17. Conveying Information About Screening and Diagnosis
Jenny Hewison, Louise D. Bryant and Jane Fisher
18. Ultrasound and Biochemical Screening for Fetal Aneuploidy
Howard Cuckle and Ran Neiger
19. Ultrasound Screening for Fetal Abnormalities in the First Trimester
Caterina M. Bilardo and Frederick Ushakov
20. Evidence for Routine Ultrasound Screening for Fetal Abnormalities in the Second and Third Trimesters
Yalda Afshar, Rashmi Rao, Anahit Martirosian and Lawrence D. Platt
21. Noninvasive Screening for Cytogenetic Disorders (Fetal Aneuploidy Including Microdeletions)
Karen Wou and Ronald J. Wapner
22.. Noninvasive Prenatal Diagnosis for Single-Gene Disorders
Melissa Hill and Lyn S. Chitty
23. Invasive Diagnostic Procedures
Anthony O. Odibo and Ganesh Acharya
24. Prenatal Diagnosis of Chromosome Abnormalities
Colleen G. Bilancia, Mythily Ganapathi and Brynn Levy
25. Advances in Molecular Genetics Including Fetal Sequencing
Magdalena Walkiewicz and Ignatia B. Van den Veyver
26. Expanded Carrier Screening
Liran Hiersch and Yuval Yaron
27. Prenatal Screening for Thalassemias
Kwok Yin Leung, Patrick Au and Mary Tang
Section 7: Diagnosis and Management of Fetal Malformations
28. Sonography of the Fetal Central Nervous System
Luc De Catte, Bart De Keersmaecker, Luc Joyeux and Michael Aertsen
29. The Heart, 305
Christoph Wohlmuth and Helena M. Gardiner
30. Fetal Lung Lesions
James Cook, Angela Yulia, Colin Wallis and Pranav P. Pandya
31. Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
Francesca Maria Russo, Liesbeth Lewi, Jute Richter and Jan Deprest
32. Abdomen
Jon Hyett
33. Kidney and Urinary Tract Disorders
Roland Devlieger and An Hindryckx
34. Diagnosis and Management of Fetal Skeletal Abnormalities
Lyn S. Chitty, Louise C. Wilson and Frederick Ushakov
35. Diagnosis and Management of Abnormalities of the Face
Elisabeth de Jong-Pleij and Caterina M. Bilardo
36. Fetal Hydrops
Sylvie Langlois and R. Douglas Wilson
37. Fetal Tumours
Thomas R. Everett, Rosalind Pratt, Colin R. Butler, Richard J. Hewitt, Paolo De Coppi and Pranav P. Pandya
38. Open Fetal Surgery
Luc Joyeux, Frank Van Calenbergh, Roland Devlieger, Luc De Catte and Jan Deprest
Section 8: Diagnosis and Management of Other Fetal Conditions
39. Fetal Growth and Growth Restriction
Emily J. Su and Henry L. Galan
40. Haemolytic Disease of the Fetus and Newborn
Saul Snowise and Kenneth J. Moise Jr.
41. Fetal Platelet Disorders
Dian Winkelhorst and Dick Oepkes
42. Fetal Infections
Guillaume Benoist, Marianne Leruez-Ville and Yves Ville
43. Disorders of Amniotic Fluid
Jan E. Dickinson
44. Multiple Pregnancy
Sieglinde M. Müllers, Fionnuala McAuliffe and Fergal D. Malone
45. In Utero Stem Cell Transplantation
Cecilia Götherström, Lilian Walther-Jallow and Magnus Westgren
46. Fetal Gene Therapy
Anna L. David
47. The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
Scott W. White, Sara L. Hillman and John P. Newnham
Section 9: Interface of Maternal, Fetal and Neonatal Medicine
48. Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics
Lara S. Lemon, Raman Venkataramanan and Steve N. Caritis
49. Neonatal Management and Outcome in Extreme Prematurity
Enrico Lopriore, Arjan B. Te Pas, Sylke Steggerda and Jeanine M. van Klink
Online Materials
Self-Assessment
Spyros Bakalis, Frederick Ushakov and Pranav P. Pandya
Product details
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- Edition: 3
- Latest edition
- Published: February 9, 2019
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
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