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

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Elsevier : Excerpta Medica : North-Holland, 1974
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (420 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 612.6/47
• Soggetto topico: Birth size; Fetus - Growth
• Altri autori: ElliottKatherine KnightJulie
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Size at birth
• ISBN: 1-280-78338-9; 9786613693778; 0-470-72009-3; 0-470-71777-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812685003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 27.