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Basic Science and Clinical Practice
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Second Edition
By
Charles Rodeck, MB, BS, BSc, DSc, FRCOG, FRCPath, FMedSci, Emeritus Professor, Institute for Women's Health, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College London, London, UK
Martin Whittle, MD, FRCOG, FRCP(Glas), Emeritus Professor of Fetal Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Description
With a foreword by John T. Queenan, MD, Professor and Chair Emeritus of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Georgetown University School of Medicine,
Washington.
Fetal medicine has emerged as a separate subspecialty over the last 30 years as a result of major advances in a number
of areas, in particular ultrasound imaging, cytogenetics, molecular biology and biochemistry. The widespread use of antenatal screening
and diagnostic tests has led to an increased need for obstetricians to have knowledge and skills in fetal medicine. This book provides
the information that underpins training programmes in fetal medicine and integrates science and clinical disciplines in a practical and
useful way.
Audience
– Specialists and trainees in fetal medicine
– Obstetricians
– Neonatologists
– Radiologists with an interest in ultrasound
– Epidemiologists with an interest in screening
Contents
EARLY FETAL DEVELOPMENT
1. Early concepts and terminology
2. Cellular mechanisms and embryonic tissues
3.
Staging embryos in development and the embryonic body plan
4. Development of the head
5. Development of the heart
THE
PLACENTA
6. The immunology of implantation
7. Development of the placenta and its circulation
8. Placental function
and maternofetal exchange
9. Maternofetal trafficking
FETAL PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY
10. Development
of the cardiovascular system
11. Lung growth and maturation
12. Development of the kidneys and urinary tract
13. Maternal medicines
and the fetus
14. The perinatal postmortem
EPIDEMIOLOGY
15. Epidemiological techniques in fetal medicine.
ETHICS
16.
Ethical issues in maternal-fetal medicine
PRENATAL SCREENING AND DIAGNOSIS
17. Conveying information about
screening
18. Parental reaction to prenatal diagnosis and subsequent bereavement
19. Prenatal screening for open neural tube defects
and Down's syndrome
20. Ultrasound screening for fetal abnormalities and aneuploidies in the first and second trimesters
21.
Non-invasive screening and diagnosis from maternal blood
22. Invasive diagnostic procedures
23. Cytogenetics
24. Mandelian
genetics - the old and the new
25. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
26. Haemaglobinopathies
27. Prenatal screening for thalassemias
28.
Cystic fibrosis
29. Inborn errors of metabolism
DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF FETAL MALFORMATIONS
30.
Sonography of the fetal central nervous system
31. The heart
32. Fetal lung lesions
33. Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
34.
Abdomen
35. Kidney and urinary tract disorders
36. Fetal skeletal abnormalities
37. Fetal hydrops
38. Fetal tumors
DIAGNOSIS
AND MANAGEMENT OF OTHER FETAL CONDITIONS
39. Fetal growth and growth restriction
40. Red cell alloimmunization
41.
Fetal platelet disorders
42. Treatable fetal endocrine and metabolic disorders
43. Early pregnancy failure
44. Fetal infections
45.
Amniotic fluid
46. Multiple pregnancy
47. In utero stem cell transplantation
48. Fetal gene therapy
THE NEONATE
49.
Interface of fetal and neonatal medicine
Self-assessment scenarios
Appendix: Charts of fetal measurements
Index
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Hardbound, 800 pages, publication date: NOV-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-10408-4
ISBN-10: 0-443-10408-5
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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