Prenatal Medicine
  1. 648 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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About this book

At the cutting-edge of maternal and neonatal management and research, this reference presents the most recent advances in fetal DNA/RNA, embryoscopy/fetoscopy, open fetal surgery, and ethnic population screening to manage pre-existing and newly detected maternal medical complications, detect genetic and congenital abnormalities, prevent preterm bir

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Contents
  5. Contributors
  6. 1. First Trimester Serum Screening
  7. 2. Maternal Serum Screening for Down Syndrome
  8. 3. Nuchal Translucency Screening
  9. 4. Nasal Bone in Screening for Trisomy 21
  10. 5. Screening for Neural Tube Defects: Ultrasound and Serum Markers
  11. 6. Antenatal Screening for Down Syndrome Using the Integrated Test
  12. 7. Genetic Ultrasound Scan—Second Trimester
  13. 8. Fetal Cells in Maternal Blood: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Implications
  14. 9. Fetal DNA and mRNA in Maternal Plasma
  15. 10. Ethnic Population Screening
  16. 11. Pathophysiology of Increased Nuchal Translucency
  17. 12. Invasive Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques
  18. 13. Prenatal Diagnosis of Multifetal Pregnancies
  19. 14. Embryoscopy in the First Trimester of Pregnancy
  20. 15. Prenatal Diagnosis of Chromosome Abnormalities
  21. 16. Prenatal DNA Testing
  22. 17. Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
  23. 18. Fetal Anomaly Scan
  24. 19. The Role of Three-Dimensional Ultrasound in Prenatal Diagnosis
  25. 20. Fetal Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  26. 21. Prenatal Therapy—Prevention of Labor
  27. 22. Pharmacological Therapy
  28. 23. Intrauterine Intravascular Treatment
  29. 24. Gastroschisis
  30. 25. Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome
  31. 26. Fetoscopic Instrumentation and Techniques
  32. 27. Open Fetal Surgery
  33. 28. Termination of Pregnancy
  34. 29. Fetal Reduction
  35. 30. Gene Therapy
  36. 31. Maternal/Fetal Conflict: A Legal and Ethical Conundrum
  37. 32. Ethical Issues
  38. Index
  39. Back Cover