Description
This book is a guide to foetal medicine for practising obstetricians. Its key aim is to help improve prenatal and perinatal management of high risk pregnancies, with an emphasis on monitoring and diagnosis.
Beginning with an overview of prenatal diagnosis, the following sections cover prenatal counselling, non-invasive prenatal screening, invasive diagnostic techniques, laboratory techniques, antenatal use of foetal therapy, prenatal operative scope, ethical and medicolegal aspects, and the future of prenatal diagnosis. The final section offers FIGO best practice guidelines.
This comprehensive guide is highly illustrated with more than 350 clinical photographs, figures and tables.
Key Points
- Practical guide to foetal medicine for practising obstetricians
- Key aim to help improve prenatal and perinatal management of high risk pregnancies
- Includes FIGO best practice guidelines
- Highly illustrated with more than 350 photographs, figures and tables
