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Fetal medicine : basic science and clinical practice /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Elsevier Science (Firm)
Other Authors: Pandya, Pranav (Editor), Wapner, Ronald (Editor), Oepkes, Dick (Editor), Sebire, N. J. (Neil James), 1968- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [London?] : Elsevier, [2020]
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Fetus > Diseases.
Fetus > Physiology.
Fetus > Abnormalities.
Fetal monitoring.
Prenatal diagnosis.
Fetal Diseases > diagnosis.
Fetal Diseases > therapy.
Prenatal Diagnosis.
Fetus > physiology.
Fetal Monitoring.
Ebooks.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book.
Table of Contents:
  • Early concepts and terminology
  • Cellular mechanisms and embryonic tissues
  • Staging embryos in development and the embryonic body plan
  • Teratology
  • Early pregnancy failure
  • The immunology of implantation
  • Development of the placenta and its circulation
  • Placental function in maternofetal exchange
  • Placental pathology and implications for fetal medicine
  • Development of the heart and cardiovascular system in relation to cardiac abnormalities
  • Lung growth and maturation
  • Development of the kidneys and urinary tract in relation to renal anomalies
  • The perinatal postmortem examination
  • Epidemiologic and research methods in fetal medicine
  • Ethical issues in maternal-fetal medicine
  • Principles of screening
  • Conveying information about screening and diagnosis
  • Ultrasound and biochemical screening for fetal aneuploidy
  • Ultrasound screening for fetal abnormalities in the first trimester
  • Evidence for routine ultrasound screening for fetal abnormalities in the second and third trimesters
  • Noninvasive screening for cytogenetic disorders (fetal aneuploidy including microdeletions)
  • Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis for single-gene disorders
  • Invasive diagnostic procedures
  • Prenatal diagnosis of chromosome abnormalities
  • Advances in molecular genetics including fetal sequencing
  • Expanded carrier screening
  • Prenatal screening for thalassemias
  • Sonography of the fetal central nervous system
  • The heart
  • Fetal lung lesions
  • Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
  • Abdomen
  • Kidney and urinary tract disorders
  • Diagnosis and management of fetal skeletal abnormalities
  • Diagnosis and management of abnormalities of the face
  • Fetal hydrops
  • Fetal tumours
  • Open fetal surgery
  • Fetal growth and growth restriction
  • Haemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn
  • Fetal platelet disorders
  • Fetal infections
  • Disorders of amniotic fluid
  • Multiple pregnancy
  • In utero stem cell transplantation
  • Fetal gene therapy
  • The developmental origins of health and disease
  • Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
  • Neonatal management and outcome in extreme prematurity
  • Self-assessment.