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Advances in Perinatal Medicine

Volume 1

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  • © 1981

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Editors:
  1. Aubrey Milunsky

    1. Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
      Computational Mechanics Center, Boston, USA
      Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA

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  2. Emanuel A. Friedman

    1. Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
      Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, USA

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  3. Louis Gluck

    1. University of California, San Diego, USA
      School of Medicine, La Jolla, USA

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Neonatal and Infantile Apnea

    • Dorothy H. Kelly, Daniel C. Shannon
    Pages 1-44

  3. Perinatal Damage to the Developing Brain

    • Karen E. Pape, Pamela M. Fitzhardinge
    Pages 45-85

  4. Complications and Management of Breech Presentation

    • Joseph V. Collea
    Pages 87-116

  5. Intrauterine Fetal Growth Retardation

    • Robert K. Creasy, Robert Resnik
    Pages 117-164

  6. Ultrasound in Normal and High-Risk Pregnancy

    • J. W. Wladimiroff
    Pages 165-229

  7. Behavioral Teratogenesis

    • Mari S. Golub, Arnold M. Golub
    Pages 231-293

  8. Effects of Uterine Contractility on the Fetal Cranium

    • Timothy J. Kriewall, Gregg K. McPherson
    Pages 295-356

  9. Effects of Pressure Gradient on the Fetal Cranium

    • Lennart Lindgren
    Pages 357-428

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 429-438
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About this book

The state of health care isreflected by perinatal and neonatal morbidity and mortality as weIl as by the frequencies of long-term neurological and developmental disorders. Many factors, some without immediately recognizable significance to childbearing and many still unknown, undoubtedly contribute beneficially or adversely to the outcome of pregnancy. Knowledge concerning the impact of such factors on the fetus and survivinginfant iscritical. Confounding analysesofpregnancy outcome, especially these past 2 or 3 decades, are the effects of newly undertaken invasive or inactive therapeutic approaches coupled with the advent of high technology. Many innovations have been introduced without serious efforts to evaluate their impact prospectively and objectively. The consequences of therapeutic misadventures character­ ized the past; it seems they have been replaced to a degree by some of the complications of applied technology. Examples abound: after overuse of oxygen was recognized to cause retrolental fibroplasia, its restriction led to an increase in both neonatal death rates and neurologic damage in surviving infants. Administration of vitamin K to prevent neonatal hemorrhagic disease, particularly when given in what we now know as excessive dosage, occasionally resulted in kernicterus. Prophy­ lactic sulfonamide use had a similar end result. More recent is the observation of bronchopulmonary dysplasia as a complication of re­ spirator therapy for hyaline membrane disease. The decade of the eighties opened with the all-time highest rate of cesarean section in the United States.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

    Aubrey Milunsky, Emanuel A. Friedman

  • Computational Mechanics Center, Boston, USA

    Aubrey Milunsky

  • Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA

    Aubrey Milunsky

  • Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, USA

    Emanuel A. Friedman

  • University of California, San Diego, USA

    Louis Gluck

  • School of Medicine, La Jolla, USA

    Louis Gluck

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Advances in Perinatal Medicine

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 1

  • Editors: Aubrey Milunsky, Emanuel A. Friedman, Louis Gluck

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4451-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Aubrey Milunsky, Emanuel A. Friedman, and Louis Gluck 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-4453-8Published: 07 August 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-4451-4Published: 21 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 438

  • Number of Illustrations: 154 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Obstetrics/Perinatology/Midwifery, Maternal and Child Health, Gynecology

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