Fetal Medicine: An Illustrated Textbook

Description:

Evidence-based clinical guidelines are designed to provide systematically developed recommendations to assist clinicians and their patients in making decisions about appropriate treatment for specific conditions. While these may often be widely available, nowhere are they collated into a single, practical text. This book will fill this need for those working in maternal-fetal medicine, comprehensively covering the conditions, diagnostic and therapeutic challenges faced by those working in fetal care. Presented in highly illustrated, algorithm format with fetograms and autopsy correlations included, this book will aid in the diagnosis, investigation, counselling and therapeutic options for the management of fetal abnormalities and disorders.

Contributors

SIÂN BULLOUGH

Research Fellow, Fetal Medicine Unit

Liverpool Women’s Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Chapter 14: Fetal Infections; Chapter 15: Drugs in Pregnancy and Teratogenesis

GLENN GARDENER

Director and Senior Staff Specialist

Maternal and Fetal Medicine, Mater Mother’s Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Chapter 18: Fetal Surgery for Spina Bifida

SUJATHA JAGADEESH

Head of Department of Clinical Genetics Mediscan Systems, Chennai, India Chapter 15: Drugs in Pregnancy and Teratogenesis

DAVOR JURKOVIC

Consultant Gynaecologist and Professor at the University College London

Director Gynaecology Diagnostic Unit, University College Hospital, London, United Kingdom Chapter 9: Abnormal Placenta

VICTORIA MCKAY

Consultant Clinical Geneticist and Clinical Lead at the Liverpool Centre for Genomic Medicine

Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom Chapter 19: Genetic Syndromes

RITU MOGRA

Senior Staff Specialist and Head of Department of Obstetric and Gynaecological Imaging RPA Women and Babies, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia

Chapter 12: Multiple Pregnancy

KATE NAVARATNAM

Consultant in Maternal Fetal Medicine

Fetal Medicine Unit, Liverpool Women’s Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Chapter 16: Ultrasound Guided Invasive Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures; Chapter 20: Termination of Pregnancy for Fetal Abnormality

BORNA POLJAK

Research Fellow, Fetal Medicine Unit

Liverpool Women’s Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom Chapter 19: Genetic Syndromes

ANDREW SHARP

Senior Lecturer, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Chapter 4: Small for Gestational Age (SGA) and Fetal Growth Restriction

BEENA SURESH

Consultant Geneticist, Mediscan Systems, Chennai, India Chapter 19: Genetic Syndromes

INDRANI SURESH

Co-director, Mediscan Systems, Chennai, India Chapter 3.2: Fetal Heart

 

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Dr Lata Muralidharan, Head of Perinatal Pathology, Mediscan, for providing amazing images of various pathological specimens, and to Mrs Subbulakshmi Raghavan, Research coordinator, Mediscan, for her work with ultrasound images for the book.