Management of High-Risk Pregnancy is a must-have for all health professionals involved in the care of women with high risk pregnancies.
Management of High-Risk Pregnancy focuses on factors affecting pregnancy, genetics, practical diagnostic techniques, maternal diseases in pregnancy and pregnancy complications, labor, anesthesia, and neonatal considerations.
Contents
1. Factors of High-Risk Pregnancy
- Overview of high-risk pregnancy
- Maternal nutrition
- Alcohol and substance abuse
- Environmental agents and reproductive risk
- Medications in pregnancy and lactation
2. Genetics
- Genetic screening for mendelian disorders
- Screening for neural tube defects
- First and second trimester screening for fetal aneuploidy
3. Monitoring: Biochemical and Biophysical
- Fetal endocrinology
- Fetal lung maturity
- Antepartum fetal monitoring
- Interpreting intrapartum fetal heart tracings
4. Maternal Disease
- Sickle cell disease
- Thrombocytopenia
- Inherited and acquired thrombophilias
- Pathophysiology and diagnosis of thromboembolic disorders in pregnancy
- Cardiac disease in pregnancy
- Renal disease in pregnancy
- Pregnancy in transplant patients
- Gestational diabetes mellitus
- Diabetes mellitus
- Maternal hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism
- Asthma
- Epilepsy
- Chronic hypertension
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Perinatal infections
- Group B streptococcal infections
- Hepatitis in pregnancy
- HIV infection
5. Obstetric Complications
- Genetic and nongenetic causes of spontaneous abortion
- The incompetent cervix
- Gestational hypertension—preeclampsia and eclampsia
- Emergency care in pregnancy
- Sonographic dating and standard fetal biometry
- Rh and other blood group alloimmunizations
- Multiple pregnancy
- Polyhydramnios and oligohydramnios
- Prevention of preterm birth
- Pathogenesis and prediction of preterm delivery
- Preterm premature rupture of membranes
- Management of preterm labor
- Placenta previa and related placental disorders
6. Complications of Labor and Delivery
- Prolonged pregnancy
- Cesarean delivery
- Vaginal birth after cesarean delivery
- Breech delivery
- Obstetric analgesia and anesthesia
7. Procedures
- Genetic amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling
- Direct fetal blood sampling: cordocentesis
- Amnioinfusion: indications and controversies
- Fetal surgery
- Problems in the newborn
- Neonatal encephalopathy and cerebral palsy
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