Table of Contents

 

 

 

SECTION I

PHYSIOLOGY

1

Chapter 1

Placental Anatomy and Physiology   Graham J. Burton, Colin P. Sibley, and Eric R.M. Jauniaux

3

Chapter 2

Fetal Physiology   Michael G. Ross, M. Gore Ervin,  and Donald Novak

26

Chapter 3

Maternal Physiology   Michael C. Gordon

55

Chapter 4

Maternal-Fetal Immunology   Kristina M. Adams and Laurence E. Shields

85

SECTION II

PRENATAL CARE

109

Chapter 5

Preconception and Prenatal Care: Part of the Continuum   Timothy R.B. Johnson, Kimberly D. Gregory and Jennifer R. Niebyl

111

Chapter 6

Genetic Counseling and Genetic Screening   Joe Leigh Simpson and Wolfgang Holzgreve

138

Chapter 7

Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis   Joe Leigh Simpson and Lucas Otaño

152

Chapter 8

Drugs and Environmental Agents in Pregnancy and Lactation: Embryology, Tetalogy, Epidemiology   Jennifer R. Niebyl and Joe Leigh Simpson

184

Chapter 9

Ultrasound for Pregnancy Dating, Growth, and the Diagnosis of Fetal Malformations   Douglas S. Richards

215

Chapter 10

Fetal Therapy   Mark I. Evans, Yuval Yaron, Jan Deprest, Alan W. Flake, Charles Kleinman, and Michael R. Harrison

245

Chapter 11

Antepartum Fetal Evaluation   Maurice L. Druzin, James F. Smith Jr., Steven G. Gabbe, and Kathryn L. Reed

267

SECTION III

INTRAPARTUM CARE

301

Chapter 12

Normal Labor and Delivery   Sarah Kilpatrick and Etoi Garrison

303

Chapter 13

Abnormal Labor and Induction of Labor   Leah R. Battista and Deborah A. Wing

322

Chapter 14

Operative Vaginal Delivery   Peter E. Nielsen, Henry Galan, Sarah Kilpatrick, and Etoi Garrison

344

Chapter 15

Intrapartum Fetal Evaluation   Thomas J. Garite

364

Chapter 16

Obstetric Anesthesia   Joy L. Hawkins, Laura Goetzl, and David H. Chestnut

396