Main 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.

Contents:

1. Fetal anatomy: first trimester assessment; 2. Screening for common chromosomal abnormalities and other genetic conditions; 3. Fetal Anatomy: second and third trimester assessment; 3.1 Head and neck; 3.2 Fetal heart and common antenatally diagnosed cardiac anomalies; 3.3 Thoracic and pulmonary abnormalities; 3.4 Spine; 3.5 Abdomen; 3.6 Genito-urinary tract; 3.7 Skeletal Anomalies; 4. Small for gestational age and fetal growth restriction; 5. Large for gestation age fetus; 6. Rhesus disease; 7. Fetal alloimune Thrombocytopenia; 8. Hydrops in second and third trimester; 9. Abnormal placenta; 10. Umbilical cord abnormalities; 11. Amniotic fluid abnormalities; 12. Multiple pregnancy; 13. Short cervix in asymptomatic women; 14. Fetal infections; 15. Drugs in pregnancy and teratogenesis; 16. Ultrasound guided invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures; 17. Fetoscopy and ultrasound guided thermal therapeutic prodecures; 18. Fetal surgery for spina bifida; 19. Genetic syndromes; 20. Termination of pregnancy for fetal abnormality.