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Caring for Children Born Small for Gestational Age

Siegfried Zabransky (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

299 Seiten

2013 | 2013 ed.
Springer Healthcare (Verlag)
978-1-908517-85-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Fetal Development.- Intrauterine aspects.- Maternal nutrition.- Prenatal care, surveillance, 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.

Zusatzinfo	24 Tables, black and white; 45 Illustrations, color; XVII, 299 p. 45 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 201 mm
Gewicht	3408 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Hebamme / Entbindungspfleger
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe
	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Endokrinologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pädiatrie
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Biochemie / Molekularbiologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
Schlagworte	Birth weight • growth hormone • Metabolism • Neonatal • small for gestational age
ISBN-10	1-908517-85-9 / 1908517859
ISBN-13	978-1-908517-85-2 / 9781908517852
Zustand	Neuware