Caring for Children Born Small for Gestational Age

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zabransky, Siegfried. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Tarporley : Springer Healthcare Ltd. : Imprint: Springer Healthcare, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Obstetrics.; Health promotion.; Maternal and child health services.; Endocrinology.; Metabolic diseases.; Pediatrics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Obstetrics/Perinatology.; Maternal and Child Health.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Metabolic Diseases.
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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 ph...

Table of Contents:

• 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.