Caring for Children Born Small for Gestational Age

Herausgegeben:Zabransky, Siegfried

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Care for Children Born Small for Gestational Age is a comprehensive handbook that serves to synthesize the extensive recent literature in the area to provide a practical resource aimed at a wide range of healthcare professionals, including obstetricians, midwives, neonatologists, and primary care physicians. This comprehensive handbook includes an in-depth survey of the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and long-term monitoring of children born small for gestational age, as well as related conditions such as intrauterine growth restriction, metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. Additionally, the short and long-term psychiatric and social consequences of this condition are addressed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Healthcare / Springer Healthcare Ltd. / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 86304325
• 2013
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 127mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9781908517852
• ISBN-10: 1908517859
• Artikelnr.: 39194557

Inhaltsangabe

Fetal Development.- Intrauterine aspects.- Maternal nutrition.- Prenatal care, survelillance, and risk assessment.- Birthweight percentiles: an international comparison.- Fetal growth restriction: definitions, causes, and epidemiology.- Obstetric aspects.- Placental function in intrauterine growth restriction.- Placental function: predicting impairment.- The role of genetic and epigenetics in growth restriction.- Fetal programming.- Premature infants.- Term newborns.- Endocrine regulation of fetal growth.- Growth hormone treatment.- Renal function.- Pancreatic development.- Metabolic syndrome.- Cardiovascular risks and diseases.- Ophthalmological findings and visual function disorders.- Auditory function disorders.- Neurological, neurocognitive and behavioural aspects.- Prevention and long term care.- Considerations for future research.