Fetal Medicine - Basic Science and Clinical Practice

Covering pertinent basic science and offering today's most authoritative guidance on clinical management, Fetal Medicine, 3rd Edition, is a must-have resource for obstetricians and other healthcare professionals involved in care of the fetus. An international team of expert contributors delivers the knowledge and background you need to effectively diagnose and treat fetal disorders - everything from prenatal screening and diagnostic tests to common and rare prenatal conditions, early pregnancy loss, ethical issues, and much more.

• Focuses on fetal medicine throughout, bringing you today's most reliable information in both basic science and clinical topics.


• Offers updated information from cover to cover, including new coverage of genetics, embryology, and clinical management.


• Features new self-assessment questions, new video clips, and new images throughout - for a total of nearly 1,000 photographs and line drawings, as well as more than 150 quick-reference tables.


• Details fast-changing developments in fetal medicine, including advances in ultrasound imaging, cytogenetics, molecular biology, and biochemistry.


• Helps you learn and retrieve complex information quickly thanks to succinct, highly structured text; key points at the beginning of each chapter; and concise chapter summaries.
• Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

New editor team - 3 new editors with an international approach - they will select qualified authors who can discuss the basic science as well as the clinical aspects of perinatal problems
Updated knowledge content - major areas of change are non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) and genetic testing - Ron Wapner is one of the leaders in these fields
Expert Consult access - individual electronic access for the first time
4-color design - current design is b&w so will update with new colors and colorize the drawings.

List of contents

Section 1: Early Fetal Development
1 Early Concepts and Terminology, 2
Patricia Collins
2 Cellular Mechanisms and Embryonic Tissues, 6
Patricia Collins
3 Staging Embryos in Development and the
Embryonic Body Plan, 23
Patricia Collins
4 Teratology, 30
Sarah G. Obican and Anthony R. Scialli
5 Early Pregnancy Failure, 38
Davor Jurkovic and Kuhan Rajah
Section 2: The Placenta
6 The Immunology of Implantation, 48
Ashley Moffett, Y.W. Loke and Andrew Sharkey
7 Development of the Placenta and Its
Circulation, 55
Caroline E. Dunk, Berthold Huppertz and John C. Kingdom
8 Placental Function in Maternofetal
Exchange, 69
Colin Sibley and Mark Dilworth
9 Placental Pathology and Implications for Fetal
Medicine, 78
Neil J. Sebire and John C. Kingdom
Section 3: Fetal Physiology and Pathology
10 Development of the Heart and Cardiovascular
System in Relation to Cardiac Abnormalities, 88
Michael Ashworth
11 Lung Growth and Maturation, 103
Richard Harding, Annie R.A. McDougall and Stuart B. Hooper
12 Development of the Kidneys and Urinary Tract in
Relation to Renal Anomalies, 114
Paul J.D. Winyard
13 The Perinatal Postmortem Examination, 121
J. Ciaran Hutchinson, Susan C. Shelmerdine and Neil J. Sebire
Section 4: Epidemiology
14 Epidemiologic and Research Methods in Fetal
Medicine, 132
Cande V. Ananth and Alan T. Tita
Section 5: Ethics
15 Ethical Issues in Maternal-Fetal Medicine, 139
Wybo J. Dondorp and Guido M. de Wert
Section 6: Prenatal Screening and Diagnosis
16 Principles of Screening, 149
Joshua I. Rosenbloom and George A. Macones
17 Conveying Information About Screening and
Diagnosis, 154
Jenny Hewison, Louise D. Bryant and Jane Fisher
18 Ultrasound and Biochemical Screening for Fetal
Aneuploidy, 161
Howard Cuckle and Ran Neiger
19 Ultrasound Screening for Fetal Abnormalities in
the First Trimester, 176
Caterina M. Bilardo and Frederick Ushakov
20 Evidence for Routine Ultrasound Screening for
Fetal
Abnormalities in the Second and Third
Trimesters,
194
Yalda Afshar, Rashmi Rao, Anahit Martirosian and
Lawrence D. Platt
21 Noninvasive Screening for Cytogenetic Disorders
(Fetal Aneuploidy Including Microdeletions), 202
Karen Wou and Ronald J. Wapner
22 Noninvasive Prenatal Diagnosis for Single-Gene
Disorders, 214
Melissa Hill and Lyn S. Chitty
Contents
Contents vii
23 Invasive Diagnostic Procedures, 225
Anthony O. Odibo and Ganesh Acharya
24 Prenatal Diagnosis of Chromosome
Abnormalities, 233
Colleen G. Bilancia, Mythily Ganapathi and Brynn Levy
25 Advances in Molecular Genetics Including Fetal
Sequencing, 247
Magdalena Walkiewicz and Ignatia B. Van den Veyver
26 Expanded Carrier Screening, 254
Liran Hiersch and Yuval Yaron
27 Prenatal Screening for Thalassemias, 263
Kwok Yin Leung, Patrick Au and Mary Tang
Section 7: Diagnosis and Management of
Fetal Malformations
28 Sonography of the Fetal Central Nervous
System, 275
Luc De Catte, Bart De Keersmaecker, Luc Joyeux and
Michael Aertsen
29 The Heart, 305
Christoph Wohlmuth and Helena M. Gardin

Product details

• Authors: Dick Oepkes, Oepkes Dick, Pranav Pandya, Pranav P Pandya, Pranav P. Pandya, Pranav P Pandya, Neil Sebire, Neil (Consultant Pathologist Sebire, Sebire Neil, Ronald Wapner, Wapner Ronald
• Publisher: Elsevier, München
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780702069567
• ISBN: 978-0-7020-6956-7
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Gynecology & Obstetrics, Gynaecology & obstetrics, Materno-fetal medicine, Neonatal Medicine, Materno-foetal medicine / perinatology