Main description:

This book is a comprehensive guide to the assessment and management of high risk pregnancy.

Divided into eleven sections, the text begins with discussion on antenatal care, nutrition, genetic screening and ultrasonography-guided interventions in pregnancy.

The following sections cover different factors that cause a pregnancy to be high risk including haematological disorders, early pregnancy complications, medical disorders such as gestational diabetes and cardiac disease, obstetric complications such as eclampsia and preterm labour, infections, foetal growth problems, and autoimmune diseases.

The finals chapters discuss delivery complications and miscellaneous topics such as intrauterine foetal death, cerebrovascular accidents, ART pregnancies, and medicolegal aspects.

The book is further enhanced by clinical photographs, diagrams and tables.

Key points

Comprehensive guide to management of high risk pregnancy
Detailed discussion on screening and prevention of complications
Presents recent advances in the field
Highly illustrated with clinical photographs, diagrams and tables

Contents:

Section 1: Update on Antenatal Care

Changing Trends in Antenatal Care
Missing Dimensions in Antenatal Care
Nutrition in Pregnancy
Antenatal Fetal Surveillance and Identification of High-risk Pregnancy

Section 2: Fetal Advances

Prenatal Genetic Screening and Testing
Impact of Advances in Genetics in Prenatal Diagnosis
Ultrasonography-guided Interventions in Pregnancy

Section 3: Hematological Disorders during Pregnancy

Anemia During Pregnancy and New Parenteral Iron
Non-nutritional Anemia in Pregnancy
Rh-incompatibility during Pregnancy
Management of Rh-alloimmunized Pregnancy
Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation in Pregnancy

Section 4: Early Pregnancy Complications

Recurrent Pregnancy Loss
Hyperemesis Gravidarum
Early Pregnancy Hemorrhage
Unsafe Abortions and its Consequences

Section 5: Medical Disorders during Pregnancy

Gestational Diabetes
Cardiac Diseases in Pregnancy
Specific Cardiac Conditions and Complications during Pregnancy
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
Respiratory Diseases during Pregnancy
Pregnancy and Chronic Kidney Disease
Thyroid Disorders during Pregnancy
Jaundice in Pregnancy

Section 6: Obstetric Complications

Prediction and Prevention of Pre-eclampsia
Management of Pregnancy-induced Hypertension
Maternal Assessment in Hypertensive Disease of Pregnancy
Eclampsia and HELLP Syndrome
Eye in Pregnancy
Placenta Previa: An Obstetrical Resurgence
Placenta Accreta
Placental Abruption
Preterm Labor: Diagnosis and Treatment
Premature Rupture of Membranes
Management of Multiple Pregnancy: The Recent Evidence
Teenage Pregnancy: A Global Issue
Obesity and Pregnancy
Cesarean Scar Pregnancy

Section 7: Infections during Pregnancy

Malaria during Pregnancy
Management of Influenza, Swine Flu and Dengue during Pregnancy
Tuberculosis in Pregnancy: Update on an Archenemy
Viral Infections in Pregnancy and Labor
Toxoplasmosis during Pregnancy
Zika Fever and Parvovirus Infection during Pregnancy

Section 8: Fetal Dysmaturity and Dysmorphology

Fetal Growth Restriction: Monitoring and Management
Fetal Dysmorphology

Section 9: Autoimmune Diseases and other Disorders during Pregnancy

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Pregnancy
Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome
Dermatological Disorders in Pregnancy
Pregnancy and Oral Health
Epilepsy in Pregnancy

Section 10: Complications during Delivery

Rupture Uterus
Medical Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage
Balloon Tamponade in Postpartum Hemorrhage
Surgical Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage: A Review

Section 11: Miscellaneous

Intrauterine Fetal Death (Its Impact on Maternal Morbidity and Mortality and Preventive Strategies)
Cerebrovascular Accidents in Pregnancy
ART Pregnancies: Are they different?
Adnexal Masses in Pregnancy
Medicolegal Aspects of High-risk Pregnancy
Destination Far Ahead: Strategies to Reduce MMR

Index