Fetal medicine : basic science and clinical practice

This book covers pertinent basic science and offering today's most authoritative guidance on clinical management. It is a resource for obstetricians and other healthcare professionals involved in care of the fetus. It delivers the knowledge and background you need to effectively diagnose and treat fetal disorders - everything from prenatal screening and diagnostic tests to common and rare prenatal conditions, early pregnancy loss, ethical issues, and much more. It focuses on fetal medicine throughout, brings you today's most reliable information in both basic science and clinical topics. It offers updated information from cover to cover, including new coverage of genetics, embryology, and clinical management. It features new self-assessment questions, new video clips, and new images throughout - for a total of nearly 1,000 photographs and line drawings, as well as more than 150 quick-reference tables. It details fast-changing developments in fetal medicine, including advances in ultrasound imaging, cytogenetics, molecular biology, and biochemistry. It helps you learn and retrieve complex information quickly thanks to succinct, highly structured text; key points at the beginning of each chapter; and concise chapter summaries. It discusses the basic science as well as the clinical aspects of perinatal problems. It covers major areas of change are non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) and genetic testing.