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Prenatal Assessment in Multiple Pregnancy


Publication Date   June 2007
Publisher   Informa Healthcare
Product Type   Book
Pages   240
ISBN Number   978-0-415-38424-7
Product Code   IFH150
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Summary


Following on from the success of their previous standard textbook on Multiple Pregnancy, the authors have refocused their attention on prenatal assessment in multiple pregnancy and come up with condensed and revised material in a free-standing text.

Multiple pregnancies are associated with higher levels of morbidity and fetal distress, and so effective and rapid diagnosis of problems is paramount. Those clinicians who would not have a practical application for all the aspects covered comprehensively in the earlier work will find this volume a clinically orientated and extremely useful addition to their working librar

Content


  • 1. Definition of Multiple Pregnancy/ I Blickstein
  • 2. Placentation
  • 3. Diagnosis of Chorionicity and Amnionicity/
  • 4. Three-Dimentional Sonography
  • 5. The Role of Doppler Blood Flow Velocimetry
  • 6. Fetal Echocardiography
  • 7. Sonographic Assessment of Fetal Anomalies
  • 8. Superfecundation and Superfetation
  • 9. The Vanishing Fetus
  • 10. Uncommon Causes of Twinning: Complete Hydatidiform Mole with Coexistent Twin
  • 11. Uncommon Causes of Twinning: Heterotopic Pregnancy
  • 12. Genetic Counselling: Overview
  • 13. Non-Invasive Screening Tests
  • 14. Nuchal Translucency Measurement
  • 15. Diagnostic Genetic Testing
  • 16. Pregnancy Management: Assessment of Cervical Status/
  • 17. Fetal Fibronectin
  • 18. Ultrasound Assessment of Growth
  • 19. Techniques of Biophysical Assessment
  • 20. Sonographic Diagnosis of Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome
  • 21. Monoamniotic Twins
  • 22. Pseudomonoamniotic Twins
  • 23. Single Fetal Death