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Informationen zum Autor Christoph Lees, MD MRCOG, is Reader in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine at Imperial College London; Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics and Head of Fetal Medicine at the Centre for Fetal Care, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital; Visiting Professor at the Department of Development and Regeneration, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and Editor-inChief of the journal Fetal-Maternal Medicine Reviews. Wilfried Gyselaers, MD Ph.D. is a consultant maternal-fetal physician in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ziekenhuis Oost Limburg and Professor of Maternal Physiology, Hasselt Universiteit, Belgium. Klappentext Discover new concepts in cardiovascular and hemodynamic functionality in feto-maternal medicine, from leading experts in the field. Zusammenfassung Discover new concepts in cardiovascular and hemodynamic functionality during pregnancy! from international experts in feto-maternal medicine. Explore new techniques to assess gestational adaptive changes! assess the risk of underlying cardiovascular disease! and understand how the fetus will be affected by maternal cardiovascular disorders! at every stage. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Physiology of Normal Pregnancy: 1. Maternal hemodynamics in health and disease: a paradigm shift in the causation of placental syndromes Baskaran Thilaganathan; 2. Cardiovascular and volume regulatory functions in pregnancy: an overview Louis L. Peeters; 3. Cardiac function Herbert Valensise, Giuseppe Novelli and Daniele Farsetti; 4. The venous compartment in normal pregnancy Kathleen Tomsin and Wilfried Gyselaers; 5. The microcirculation Jérôme Cornette and Andreas Brückmann; 6. Plasma volume changes in pregnancy Marc E. A. Spaanderman and Anneleen S. Staelens; Part II. Pathological Pregnancy: Screening and Established Disease: 7. Arterial function in pathological pregnancies Asma Khalil and Sylvia Salvi; 8. Cardiac dysfunction in hypertensive pregnancy Herbert Valensise and Giuseppe P. Novelli; 9. Dysfunction of the venous system before and during preeclampsia Sharona Vonck and Wilfried Gyselaers; 10. Microvascular findings in pathological pregnancy Andreas Brückmann and Jérôme Cornette; Part III. Techniques: How To Do: 11. How to assess arterial function? Helen Perry, Carmel McEniery and Asma Khalil; 12. How to do a maternal venous doppler assessment? Wilfried Gyselaers; 13. Non-invasive techniques of measuring cardiac output during pregnancy Victoria Meah, Erik Stöhr and John Cockcroft; 14. Techniques of measuring plasma volume changes in pregnancy Anneleen S. Staelens and Marc Spaanderman; Part IV. Cardiovascular Therapies: 15. Treatment options of hypertension in pregnancy Lin Fung Foo, Jasmin Tay and Ian B. Wilkinson; 16. Aspirin Shireen Meher; 17. Vascular endothelial growth factor gene therapy in the management of cardiovascular problems in pregnancy Yuval Ginsberg and Anna David; 18. NO donors in preeclampsia Thomas R. Everett, Taminrit Johal and Christoph Lees; 19. Vasodilatation and fluid expansion Herbert Valensise, Damiano Lo Presti and Marc Spaanderman; Part V. Controversies: 20. Beyond temporal classification of early and late preeclampsia Enrico Ferrazzi, Daniela Di Martino, Tamara Stampalija and Maria L. Muggiasca; 21. Chemotherapy and cardiovascular function in pregnancy Kristel van Calsteren; 22. Maternal cardiovascular disease after preeclampsia Johannes Duvekot....
