num_pages: 185
description: Ch. 1. Carrier screening for multiple diseases in the Ashkenazi Jewish Community: a model for future prenatal genetic screening and disease prevention --Ch. 2. Hemophilia problems in carrier identification and fetal diagnosis --Ch. 3. Fragile X syndrome --Ch. 4. Fanconi anemia --Ch. 5. Inherited variation in susceptibility to cancer in the unborn child --Ch. 6. The RSH syndrome: paradigmatic metabolic malformation syndrome? --Ch. 7. Diagnosis of osteogenesis imperfecta and potentials for therapy --Ch. 8. Skeletal dysplasias --Ch. 9. Muscular dystrophies Ch. 10. Prenatal treatment and diagnosis of congenital adrenal hyperplasia owing to steroid 21-hydroxylase deficiency --Ch. 11. Prenatal diagnosis and treatment in congenital adrenal hyperplasia --Ch. 12. Intrauterine diagnosis/carrier detection for disorders of the androgen receptor --Ch. 13. Fetal and neonatal malnutrition --Ch. 14. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD): challenges and potentials --Ch. 15. Uniparental disomy --Ch. 16. Recovering fetal cells in maternal blood for prenatal genetic diagnosis and thalassemia Ch. 17. Fetal cells in maternal circulation to diagnose hemoglobinopathies and thalassemia --Ch. 18. Overview of fetal therapy and subcutaneous surgery --Ch. 19. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: delivery techniques --Ch. 20. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) --Ch. 21. Ethical considerations in fetal therapy --Ch. 22. New obligations of physicians in genetics --Ch. 23. Cloning and ethics.
language: English
title: Diagnosis and Treatment of the Unborn Child
titlecomplete: Diagnosis and Treatment of the Unborn Child
publisher: IDELSON-GNOCCHI PUBLISHERS