Main description:

This book is a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and treatment of medical disorders during pregnancy.

Beginning with an overview of foetal growth, the following chapters discuss the management of numerous common and more complex disorders during pregnancy, from hypertension and skin problems, to diabetes, infectious diseases, sepsis, epilepsy, and thyroid dysfunction.

Contributions from experts in the field explain disease processes, advanced diagnostic techniques and newer therapeutic methods. A separate chapter discusses the technology and ethics surrounding umbilical cord blood transplantation and banking.

Key points

Comprehensive guide to diagnosis and treatment of medical disorders during pregnancy
Covers numerous common and more complex conditions
Discusses ethics and technology of umbilical cord blood transplantation and banking
Includes nearly 90 images, illustrations and tables

Contents:

Pregnancy
Fetal Growth and Drugs
Preconception Counselling
Pregnancy and Infections
Pregnancy and H1N1 Infection
Pregnancy and Peripartum Sepsis
Pregnancy and GI Dysfunctions
Pregnancy and Jaundice
Pregnancy and Hypertension
Pregnancy and Valvular Heart Disease
Pregnancy and Cardiomyopathies
Pregnancy and the Lungs
Pregnancy and Asthma
Pregnancy and Epilepsy
Pregnancy and Anemia
Pregnancy and Coagulopathy
Pregnancy and Venous Thromboembolism
Pregnancy and Psychiatric Illnesses
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
Nutrition in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
Pre-Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
Pregnancy and Thyroid Dysfunction
Pregnancy and SLE
Pregnancy and Skin
Pregnancy and Radiation
Pregnancy and Tobacco Use
Assisted Conception and Associated Complications Contents
Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation and Banking
Care of the Newborn in the Labor Room