Full Description
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
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
