Preterm delivery is probably the most important problem in obstetrics, and a major public health concern. Recent developments - such as the preventive use of progesterone, and new data on possible mechanisms of initiation of parturition - have placed the topic at the forefront of the interests and preoccupation of many in maternal-fetal medicine an

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Front cover
Contents
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
SECTION I: MECHANISMS
Chapter 1. Myometrial programming: a new concept underlying the regulation of myometrial function during pregnancy
Chapter 2. Cervical function during pregnancy and parturition
Chapter 3. Endocrine and paracrine mechanisms in human placenta and fetal membranes in preterm birth
Chapter 4. Stress and the pathophysiology of human birth
SECTION II; MEDIATORS
CHAPTER 5. Undernutrition, preterm birth, and the prostaglandin pathway
Chapter 6. Gene redundancy in parturition: lessons for tocolysis?
Chapter 7. Regulation of inflammatory response pathways during pregnancy and labor
Chapter 8. Matrix biology and preterm birth
Chapter 9. Nitric oxide
Chapter 10. Relaxin-related preterm birth
SECTION III: METHODS OF PREDICTION AND PREVENTION
Chapter 11. Biochemical markers of preterm delivery
Chapter 12. Biophysical methods of prediction and prevention of preterm labor: uterine electromyography and cervical light-induced fluorescence-new obstetrical diagnostic techiques
Chapter 13. Genetics of preterm delivery
SECTION IV: CURRENT STATUS OF INTERVENTIONS
Chapter 14. Calcium-channel blockers and betamimetics
Chapter 15. Prostaglandins, oxytocin, and antagonists
Chapter 16. Progestational agents and labor
Chapter 17. Antenatal corticosteroid treatment
Chapter 18. Monitoring the growth-restricted fetus during the preterm period
Index
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