Caring for Children Born Small for Gestational Age [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Siegfried Zabransky

• Pubblicazione: Tarporley : , : Springer Healthcare Ltd. : , : Imprint : Springer Healthcare, , 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2013.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (299 p.)
• Disciplina: 618.92
• Soggetto topico: Pediatrics; Obstetrics; Maternal and child health services; Health promotion; Metabolic diseases; Endocrinology ; Obstetrics/Perinatology/Midwifery; Maternal and Child Health; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Metabolic Diseases; Endocrinology
• Persona (resp. second.): ZabranskySiegfried
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Caring for Children Born Small for Gestational Age
• ISBN: 1-908517-90-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910438021703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II