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Record Nr.

UNISA996202082903316

Titolo

Size at birth / / [editors, Katherine Elliott, Julie Knight]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Elsevier : Excerpta Medica : North-Holland, 1974

ISBN

1-280-78338-9

9786613693778

0-470-72009-3

0-470-71777-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (420 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 27 (new ser.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ElliottKatherine

KnightJulie

Disciplina

612.6/47

Soggetti

Birth size

Fetus - Growth

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 12th-14th March 1974."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Size at Birth; Contents; Introduction; Pathology of the deprived fetus and its supply line; Discussion; The assessment and control of human fetal growth; Discussion; The infant of inappropriate size; Discussion; Immediate and long-term consequences of being large or small at birth: a comparative approach; Discussion; Differential organ growth in littermate rabbits; Discussion; Experimental growth retardation in rhesus monkeys; Discussion; Chromosomal and other genetic influences on birth weight variation; Discussion; The influence of the fetal hypothalamus and pituitary on growth

The role of the thyroid gland and kidneys in fetal growth Discussion of the two preceding papers; Birth weight of lambs: influences and consequences; Discussion; Assessment of metabolic control in diabetic pregnancy; Discussion; Physical methods of assessing size at birth; Discussion; Fetal malnutrition and brain development; Discussion; Total parenteral nutrition in infants of very low birth weight; Discussion; Maternal nutrition, birth weight and infant mortality; Discussion; Risk factors in human intrauterine growth retardation; General Discussion; The causes of small-for-dates births



Normal variation Chromosomal and other congenital anomalies; Infections; Poor uterus; Placenta and cord; Vascular disease in the mother; Drugs, medicaments and smoking; Other causes; Index of contributors; Subject index