Main description:

In this second edition of Disorders of Thrombosis and Hemostasis in Pregnancy - A Guide to Management the content has been thoroughly updated, with a particular focus on strengthening the management sections to ensure that advice on management represents state of the art.

Contents:

Hemostatic Changes in Normal Pregnancy.- Heritable and Acquired Thrombophilias.- Global Tests of Haemostasis and Activation Markers.- Antithrombotic Agents in Pregnancy.- Thromboprophylaxis in Pregnancy.- Venous Thromboembolism in Pregnancy.- Stroke in Pregnancy.- Pregnancy Morbidity Associated with Hereditary and Acquired Thrombophilias: Recurrent Miscarriage.- Pregnancy Morbidity Associated with Hereditary and Acquired Thrombophilias: Late Obstetric Complications.- Management of Women with a History of Placenta Mediated Obstetric Morbidity.- Antithrombotic Therapy for Cardiac Disorders in Pregnancy.- Von Willebrand Disease, Factor XI Deficiency, and Hemophilia A and B Carriers in Pregnancy.- Rare Coagulation Factor Defects in Pregnancy.- Congenital Platelet Defects in Pregnancy.- Acquired Haemostatic Disorders in Pregnancy.- Obstetric Haemorrhage.- Thrombocytopenia in Pregnancy: Gestational Thrombocytopenia and Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura.- Thrombocytopenia in Pregnancy: Fetal and Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia.- Thrombotic microangiopathies in Pregnancy.- Myeloproliferative Neoplasms in Pregnancy.- Antiphospholipid syndrome in Pregnancy.- Paroxysmal Nocturmal Haemoglobinuria in Pregnancy.- Hemoglobinopathies in Pregnancy.- Peridelivery Analgesia and Anaesthesia in Women with Disorders of Haemostasis or Thrombosis.- The Neonate.- Thrombotic and Hemostatic Aspects of Assisted Conception.