Zabransky, Siegfried.

Caring for Children Born Small for Gestational Age [electronic resource] / edited by Siegfried Zabransky. - XVII, 299 p. 45 illus. in color. online resource.

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.

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.

9781908517906

10.1007/978-1-908517-90-6 doi


Medicine.
Obstetrics.
Maternal and infant welfare.
Endocrinology.
Metabolic diseases.
Pediatrics.
Medicine & Public Health.
Pediatrics.
Obstetrics/Perinatology.
Maternal and Child Health.
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
Metabolic Diseases.
Endocrinology.

RJ1-570

618.92

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