| Description |
1 online resource (online resource (xvii, 299 pages)) : color illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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Pediatrics.
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Growth disorders.
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Medicine.
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Obstetrics.
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Maternal and infant welfare.
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Endocrinology.
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Metabolism -- Disorders.
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Infant, Newborn -- growth & development
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Pediatrics
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Growth Disorders
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Medicine
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Obstetrics
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Infant Welfare
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Maternal Welfare
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Endocrinology
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Metabolic Diseases
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medicines (material)
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medicine (discipline)
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MEDICAL -- Gynecology & Obstetrics.
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Médecine.
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Endocrinology
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Growth disorders
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Maternal and infant welfare
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Medicine
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Metabolism -- Disorders
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Obstetrics
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Pediatrics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Zabransky, Siegfried, editor
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| ISBN |
9781908517906 |
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1908517905 |
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1908517859 |
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9781908517852 |
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