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Management of high-risk pregnancy : an evidence-based approach /

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Intended as a resource for perinatal care and as a reference for the diagnosis and management of high risk pregnancy, this book focuses on factors affecting pregnancy, genetics, practical diagnostic techniques, maternal diseases in pregnancy and pregnancy complications, anesthesia, and neonatal cons...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Queenan, John T., Spong, Catherine Y., Lockwood, Charles J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Edition:5th ed.
Subjects:
Pregnancy > Complications.
Pregnancy, High-Risk
Pregnancy Complications
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Table of Contents:
  • Overview of high-risk pregnancy
  • Maternal nutrition
  • Alcohol and substance abuse
  • Environmental agents and reproductive risk
  • Medications in pregnancy and lactation
  • Genetic screening for mendelian disorders
  • Screening for neural tube defects
  • First and second trimester screening for fetal aneuploidy
  • Fetal endocrinology
  • Fetal lung maturity
  • Antepartum fetal monitoring
  • Intergreting intrapartum fetal heart tracings
  • Sickle cell disease
  • Thrombocytpenia
  • Inherited and acquired thrombophilias
  • Pathophysiology and diagnosis of thromboembolic disorders in pregnancy
  • Cardiac disease in pregnancy
  • Renal disease in pregnancy
  • Pregnancy in transplant patients
  • Gestational diabetes mellitus
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • Maternal hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism
  • Asthma
  • Epilepsy
  • Chronic hypertension
  • Systemic lupus erythematosus
  • Perinatal infections
  • Group B streptococcal infections
  • Hepatitis in pregnancy
  • HIV infection
  • Genetic and nongenetic causes of spontaneous abortion
  • The incompetent cervix
  • Gestational hypertension-preeclampsia and eclampsia
  • Emergency care in pregnancy
  • Sonographic dating and standard fetal biometry
  • Rh and other blood group alloimmunizations
  • Multiple pregnancy
  • Polyhydramnios and oligohydramnios
  • Prevention of preterm birth
  • Pathogenesis and prediction of preterm delivery
  • Preterm permature rupture of membranes
  • Management of preterm labor
  • Placenta previa and related placental disorders
  • Prolonged pregnancy
  • Cesarean delivery
  • Vaginal birth after cesarean delivery
  • Breech delivery
  • Obstetric analgesia and anesthesia
  • Genetic amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling
  • Direct fetal blood sampling: cordocentesis
  • Amnioinfusion: indications and controversies
  • Fetal surgery
  • Problems in the newborn
  • Neonatal encephalopathy and cerebral palsy.