Overview

This book is a guide to foetal medicine for practising obstetricians. Its key aim is to help improve prenatal and perinatal management of high risk pregnancies, with an emphasis on monitoring and diagnosis.  Beginning with an overview of prenatal diagnosis, the following sections cover prenatal counselling, non-invasive prenatal screening, invasive diagnostic techniques, laboratory techniques, antenatal use of foetal therapy, prenatal operative scope, ethical and medicolegal aspects, and the future of prenatal diagnosis. The final section offers FIGO best practice guidelines. This comprehensive guide is highly illustrated with more than 350 clinical photographs, figures and tables. Key Points Practical guide to foetal medicine for practising obstetricians Key aim to help improve prenatal and perinatal management of high risk pregnancies Includes FIGO best practice guidelines Highly illustrated with more than 350 photographs, figures and tables

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Author:   Raju R Sahetya ,  Jaideep Malhotra ,  Hema Purandarey
Publisher:   Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers
Imprint:   Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers
Weight:   0.850kg
ISBN:  

9789385999697

ISBN 10:   9385999699
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   31 December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Section 1: General Aspects of Prenatal Diagnosis Revolution in Prenatal Diagnosis Multidisciplinary Approach for Prenatal Screening and Diagnosis Goals and Issues in The Delivery of Genetic Services in India Prenatal Diagnosis: Challenges and Opportunities Obstetrician Perspective   Section 2: Prenatal Genetic Counseling Genetic Counseling Premarital and Preconception Counseling Genetic Counseling in Prenatally Diagnosed Chromosomal Abnormalities Preconceptional Counseling and Management Role of Genetics in Reproductive Failure Genetics and Counseling of Female Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancers   Section 3: Prenatal Screening Non-Invasive Global Rainbow Healthcare First Trimester Screening Maternal Serum Screening for Chromosomal Abnormalities Newborn Screening Screening and Diagnosis of Inborn Errors of Metabolism 11 to 13Weeks Scan: A Window to Fetal Abnormalities Fetal Anomaly Scan Fetal Growth Restriction Color Doppler in Fetal Growth Restriction   Section 4: Diagnostic Techniques Invasive General Principles of Prenatal Diagnosis: Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis Chorionic Villus Sampling Amniocentesis Cordocentesis Fetoscopy   Section 5: Laboratory Techniques Genetic Testing: Indications, Types and Principles Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: Intrauterine Infections Leading to Increased Fetal Morbidity and Mortality   Section 6: Antenatal Use of Fetal Therapy Principles of Fetal Therapy and Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction Intrauterine Transfusion Management of Multifetal Pregnancies Twin To Twin Transfusion Syndrome Pregnancy and Antiepileptic Drug Treatment   Section 7: Prenatal Operative Scope Principles of Fetal Surgery Fetal Surgery: Why, When and Where? Prenatal Diagnosis and Postnatal Therapy of Surgical Anomalies Fetal Autopsy for Better Prenatal Diagnosis: Illustrative Cases   Section 8: Ethical and Medicolegal Aspects Ethical And Medicolegal Issues of Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis Amended Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques   Section 9: The Future of Prenatal Diagnosis Current Status Of Fetal Genomic Diagnosis in Fetal Medicine, Progress And Challenges Array-Based Comparative Genomic Hybridization (Array Cgh): Future in Prenatal Diagnosis What is the Future?   Section 10: Guidelines FIGO: Good Practice Advice FIGO: Best Practice In Maternal Fetal Medicine 2015   Appendix I: Growth Charts

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Raju R Sahetya MD DGO DFP FCPS FICOG Practising Gynaecologist, Pushpa Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Jaideep Malhotra MBBS MD FICOG Professor, Dubrovnik International University, Dubrovnik, Croatia; Managing Director, ART Rainbow-IVF, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India Hema Purandarey MS Mumbai, Maharashtra, India  

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