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Record Nr.

UNINA9910438021703321

Titolo

Caring for Children Born Small for Gestational Age / / edited by Siegfried Zabransky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tarporley : , : Springer Healthcare Ltd. : , : Imprint : Springer Healthcare, , 2013

ISBN

1-908517-90-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Disciplina

618.92

Soggetti

Pediatrics

Obstetrics

Maternal and child health services

Health promotion

Metabolism - Disorders

Endocrinology

Obstetrics/Perinatology/Midwifery

Maternal and Child Health

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Metabolic Diseases

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.



Sommario/riassunto

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.