Main description:

This book is a guide to foetal medicine for practising obstetricians. Its key aim is to help improve prenatal and perinatal management of high risk pregnancies, with an emphasis on monitoring and diagnosis.

Beginning with an overview of prenatal diagnosis, the following sections cover prenatal counselling, non-invasive prenatal screening, invasive diagnostic techniques, laboratory techniques, antenatal use of foetal therapy, prenatal operative scope, ethical and medicolegal aspects, and the future of prenatal diagnosis. The final section offers FIGO best practice guidelines.

This comprehensive guide is highly illustrated with more than 350 clinical photographs, figures and tables.

Key Points

Practical guide to foetal medicine for practising obstetricians
Key aim to help improve prenatal and perinatal management of high risk pregnancies
Includes FIGO best practice guidelines
Highly illustrated with more than 350 photographs, figures and tables

Contents:

Section 1: General Aspects of Prenatal Diagnosis

Revolution in Prenatal Diagnosis
Multidisciplinary Approach for Prenatal Screening and Diagnosis
Goals and Issues in The Delivery of Genetic Services in India
Prenatal Diagnosis: Challenges and Opportunities Obstetrician Perspective

Section 2: Prenatal Genetic Counseling

Genetic Counseling
Premarital and Preconception Counseling
Genetic Counseling in Prenatally Diagnosed Chromosomal Abnormalities
Preconceptional Counseling and Management
Role of Genetics in Reproductive Failure
Genetics and Counseling of Female Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancers

Section 3: Prenatal Screening Non-Invasive

Global Rainbow Healthcare
First Trimester Screening
Maternal Serum Screening for Chromosomal Abnormalities
Newborn Screening
Screening and Diagnosis of Inborn Errors of Metabolism
11 to 13Weeks Scan: A Window to Fetal Abnormalities
Fetal Anomaly Scan
Fetal Growth Restriction
Color Doppler in Fetal Growth Restriction

Section 4: Diagnostic Techniques Invasive

General Principles of Prenatal Diagnosis: Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis
Chorionic Villus Sampling
Amniocentesis
Cordocentesis
Fetoscopy

Section 5: Laboratory Techniques

Genetic Testing: Indications, Types and Principles
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis:
Intrauterine Infections Leading to Increased Fetal Morbidity and Mortality

Section 6: Antenatal Use of Fetal Therapy

Principles of Fetal Therapy and Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction
Intrauterine Transfusion
Management of Multifetal Pregnancies
Twin To Twin Transfusion Syndrome
Pregnancy and Antiepileptic Drug Treatment

Section 7: Prenatal Operative Scope

Principles of Fetal Surgery
Fetal Surgery: Why, When and Where?
Prenatal Diagnosis and Postnatal Therapy of Surgical Anomalies
Fetal Autopsy for Better Prenatal Diagnosis: Illustrative Cases

Section 8: Ethical and Medicolegal Aspects

Ethical And Medicolegal Issues of Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis
Amended Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques

Section 9: The Future of Prenatal Diagnosis

Current Status Of Fetal Genomic Diagnosis in Fetal Medicine, Progress And Challenges
Array-Based Comparative Genomic Hybridization (Array Cgh): Future in Prenatal Diagnosis
What is the Future?

Section 10: Guidelines

FIGO: Good Practice Advice
FIGO: Best Practice In Maternal Fetal Medicine 2015

Appendix I: Growth Charts