The Diabetes in Pregnancy Dilemma

Oded Langer, MD, PhD, Past Babcock Professor and Chair Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital University Hospital of Columbia University New York, New York, USA.

Preface
Introduction: Diabetes from Antiquity to the 21st Century. By Niele Langer and Oded Langer
Section I. The Scientific Rationale for Global Issues Affecting Diabetes in Pregnancy
Chapter 1. The Professional Responsibility Model of Obstetric Ethics: Clinical Application to the Management of Diabetes in Pregnancy. By Frank Chervanak and Laurence McCullough
Chapter 2. Evidence-Based Medical Practice: Its Use and Its Misuse. By Oded Langer and Nieli Langer
Chapter 3. Pharmacologic Considerations Affecting Hypoglycemic Therapy during Pregnancy. By Maisa N. Feghali, Menachem Miodovnik, and Jason G. Umans
Chapter 4. Pharmacotherapy for Diabetes in Pregnancy: Critical Review of Fetal Safety. By Gideon Koren and Denice S. Feig
Chapter 5. Diabetes and Related Metabolic States and the Placenta. By Carolyn M. Salafia, Jennifer Straughen, and Dawn P. Misra
Chapter 6. Metabolic and Hormonal Changes in Normal and Diabetic Pregnancy. By Amir Aviram and Yariv Yogev
Chapter 7. Fetal Macrosomia: Etiological Factors. By Oded Langer
Chapter 8. Fetal Growth Restriction. By Dana Block-Abraham and Ahmet Alexander Baschat
Section II. The Scientific Rationale for the Management of Diabetes in Pregnancy
Part I. Outcome Measurements of Diabetes in Pregnancy
Chapter 9. The Infant of the Diabetic Mother: Short-Term Implications and Management. By Francis B. Mimouni, Galit Mamouni Sheffer, and Dror Madel
Chapter 10. Lifespan Outcomes for the Child of the Diabetic Mother. By Ron Charach and Eyal Sheiner
Part II. General Clinical Management of the Pregnant Diabetic
Chapter 11. Glucose Monitoring in Pregnancy Compromised by Diabetes. By Liran Hiersch, Yariv Yogev
Chapter 12. Innovations in the Application of Glucose Sensing Technologies to Clinical Decision-making: CGM in Practice. By Roger Mazze, Oded Langer, and Matthew Murphy
Chapter 13. Patient Compliance: The Elusive Variable in Medical Practice. By Nieli Langer
Chapter 14. The Association between Glucose Thresholds and Perinatal Complications. By Oded Langer
Chapter 15. Medical Nutrition Therapy. By Roger Mazze, Matthew Murphy, and Oded Langer
Chapter 16. The Use of Insulin in Diabetes in Pregnancy: From the Old to the New. By Oded Langer
Chapter 17. Exercise: The Logical Intervention for Diabetes in Pregnancy. By Raul Artal, Tracy Tomlinson
Chapter 18. The Genetic Architecture of Diabetes in Pregnancy. By Stephanie A. Stein MD, Ravi Kant, Rana Malek, and Alan R. Shuldiner
Chapter 19. Fetal Testing in Pregnancies Complicated by Diabetes Mellitus: Why, How, and for Whom? By Oded Langer
Chapter 20. Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy Complicated by Diabetes. By Hind Moussa, Baha Sibai
Part III. Pregnancy Complicated by Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
Chapter 21. Pathogenesis of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus. By Thaddeus Waters and Patrick Catalano
Chapter 22. Gestational Diabetes: The Consequences of Not Treating. By Oded Langer
Chapter 23. Obesity in Pregnancy: A Sign of the Times? By Oded Langer
Chapter 24. The Metabolic Syndrome and Long-Term Implications for the Mother. By Elizabeth O. Beale and Jorge H. Mestman
Chapter 25. Screening for Gestational Diabetes. By Oded Langer
Chapter 26. Gestational Diabetes: A Diagnostic Dilemma? A Difference, to Be a Difference, Must Make a Difference. By Oded Langer
Chapter 27. Oral Anti-Diabetc Agents in Pregnancy: Their Time Has Come. By Oded Langer
Chapter 28. The Role of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Management of Type 2 and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus. By Raoul Orvieto
Part IV. Pregnancy Complicated by Pre-existing Diabetes
Chapter 29. Preconception Care in Diabetes: Shortcomings and Challenges. By Thomas R. Moore
Chapter 30. Epidemiology and Prenatal Diagnosis of Congenital Malformations in Diabetic Embryopathy. By Zhiyong Zhao and E. Albert Reece
Chapter 31. Type 2 Diabetes in Pregnancy: A Growing Concern. By Oded Langer
Chapter 32. Diabetic Ketoacidoses in Diabetic Pregnancy. By Eran Ashwal and Yariv Yogev
Chapter 33. Confronting Hypoglycemia in Pregnant Diabetic. By Barak M. Rosenn
Chapter 34. Diabetic Retinopathy. By Maisa N. Feghali, Menachem Miodovnik, and Jason G. Umans
Chapter 35. Diabetic Nephropathy in Pregnancy. By Jason Umans, Maisa Feghali, Menachem Miodovnik
Chapter 36. Fetal Lung Maturation in Pregnancies Complicated by Maternal Diabetes. By Gladys A. Ramos and Thomas R. Moore
Chapter 37. Timing and Mode of Delivery. By Oded Langer
Chapter 38. Management of Labor: Augmentation, Induction, and Glucose Control. By Elly Xenakis and Oded Langer