Clinical Obstetrics: The Fetus and Mother, 3rd Edition

by Editor: E. Albert Reece (UAMS College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences); Editor: John C. Hobbins (University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver)

• ISBN13: 9781405171830
• ISBN10: 1405171839
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The third edition of Clinical Obstetrics - The Fetus and Mother is unique in that it gives in-depth attention to the two patients - fetus and mother, giving special coverage to each patient. Clinical Obstetrics - The Fetus and Mother covers the biology, pathology, and clinical management of disorders affecting the fetus and the mother with illustrations highlighting essential diagnostic features and treatment procedures. The book has been extensively revised and in some cases reorganized for clarity and flow. This book is fully up to date with special chapters on; first trimester prenatal screening 3-D and 4-D ultrasound medical and surgical fetal therapy foetal stem cell therapy prenatal diagnosis and fetal developmental biology benign tumors in pregnancy and extensive discussion of each of the main areas of maternal diseases. The book has been made more succinct yet heavily annotated and illustrated giving greater clinical emphasis enabling fast decisions at the point of care; all chapters now have key summary points making it easy to retrieve information. In addition Clinical Obstetrics - The Fetus and Mother includes a new searchable CD of the text including over 100 colour illustrations, and a Q&A book allowing you to test your learning. Formerly known as Medicine of the Fetus and Mother and highly successful in two previous editions published by Lippincott

Table of Contents

Abbreviations. Overview: historical perspectives of fetal medicine. Part I: Conception and Conceptus Development. 1 Early conceptus growth and immunobiologic adaptations of pregnancy. Kenneth H.H. Wong and Eli Y. Adashi. 2 Normal embryonic and fetal development. Trivedi Vidhya N. Persaud and Jean C. Hay. Part II: Pregnancy and the Fetoplacental Unit. 3 Normal and abnormal placentation. Soheila Korourian and Luis De Las Casas. 4 Fetoplacental perfusion and transfer of nutrients. Henry L. Galan and Frederick C. Battaglia. 5 Endocrinology of pregnancy and the placenta. Alan DeCherney, Jessica Spencer, Tim Chard, and Karen A. Hutchinson. Part III: Fetal Developmental Biology. 6 Fetal lung development and amniotic fluid analysis. Ian Gross and Matthew J. Bizzarro. 7 Fetal cardiovascular physiology and response to stress conditions. Jean-Claude Fouron and Amanda Skoll. 8 Immunology of the fetus. Josiah F. Wedgwood and James G. McNamara. 9 Fetal endocrinology. Charles E. Wood and Maureen Keller-Wood. 10 Fetal hematology. V_ronique Cayol and Fernand Daffos. Part IV: Variations in Embryonal and Fetal Growth and Development. 11 Sporadic and recurrent pregnancy loss. Robert M. Silver and D. Ware Branch. 12 Ectopic and heterotopic pregnancies. Arnon Wiznitzer and Eyal Sheiner. 13 Multifetal pregnancies: epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and management. Michelle Smith-Levitin, Daniel W. Skupski, and Frank A. Chervenak. 14 Biology of normal and deviant fetal growth. Andr_e Gruslin and the late Carl A. Nimrod. Part V: Fetal Infections and Teratogenesis. 15 Developmental toxicology, drugs, and fetal teratogenesis. Robert L. Brent and Lynda B. Fawcett. 16 Drugs, alcohol abuse, and effects in pregnancy. Stephen R. Carr and Donald R. Coustan. 17 Teratogenic viruses. Antonio V. Sison. 18 Transplacentally acquired microbial infections in the fetus. Santosh Pandipati and Ronald S. Gibbs. 19 Antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents in pregnancy and during lactation. Janet I. Andrews and Jennifer R. Niebyl. Part VI: Fetal Diseases. 20 Principles of human genetics: chromosomal and singlegene disorders. Joe Leigh Simpson and Maurice J. Mahoney. 21 Genetic counseling in prenatal and perinatal medicine. Jeff Milunsky and Aubrey Milunsky. 22 Basic principles of ultrasound. Mladen Predanic, Frank A. Chervenak, and E. Albert Reece. 23 Prenatal diagnosis of central nervous system malformations. Gianluigi Pilu and Sandro Gabrielli. 24 Prenatal diagnosis of thoracic and cardiac abnormalities. Gianluigi Pilu, Philippe Jeanty, and Juliana M.B. Leite. 25 Gastrointestinal and genitourinary anomalies. Sandro Gabrielli, Nicola Rizzo, and E. Albert Reece. 26 Fetal skeletal anomalies. Luís F. GonYalves, Patricia L. Devers, Jimmy Espinoza, and Roberto Romero. 27 First- and second-trimester prenatal diagnosis. John C. Hobbins. 28 First- and second-trimester screening for open neural tube defects and Down syndrome. James E. Haddow, Glenn E. Palomaki, and Ronald J. Wapner. Part VII: Methods of Evaluation of Fetal Development and Well-being. 29 Prenatal diagnosis of deviant fetal growth. E. Albert Reece and Zion J. Hagay. 30 Three- and four-dimensional ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging in pregnancy. Teresita L. Angtuaco. 31 Doppler ultrasonography and fetal well-being. Brian J. Trudinger. 32 Antepartum and intrapartum surveillance