Title: Maternal-fetal medicine /
Authors: Creasy, Robert K.; Resnik, Robert.
Publisher: Saunders,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Obstetrics; Perinatology.; Fetal Diseases; Pregnancy Complications; Prenatal Diagnosis
Contents: Basic genetics and patterns of inheritance -- Prenatal genetic diagnosis -- Normal development -- Immunology of pregnancy -- Anatomic alterations in the reproductive tract -- Uterine biology and the control of myometrial contraction -- Puerperium -- Breast and the physiology of lactation -- Maternal nutrition -- Effects of therapeutic, diagnostic, and environmental agents -- Social and illicit drug use in pregnancy -- Woman battering in pregnancy -- General principles and applications of ultrasonography -- Prenatal diagnosis of structural heart disease -- Doppler ultrasound assessment of blood flow -- Fetal breathing and body movements -- Fetal cardiovascular physiology -- Placental respiratory gas exchange and fetal oxygenation -- Fetal heart rate -- Fetal cardiac arrhythmias: diagnosis and therapy -- Fetal assessment by evaluation of biophysical variables: fetal biophysical profile score -- Fetal acid-base balance -- Percutaneous fetal blood sampling --^