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Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
ISBN: 9780674022379 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A generation has passed since a physician first noticed that women who drank heavily while pregnant gave birth to underweight infants with disturbing tell-tale characteristics. Women whose own mothers enjoyed martinis while pregnant now lost sleep over a bowl of rum raisin ice cream. In Message in a Bottle, Janet Golden charts the course of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) through the courts, media, medical establishment, and public imagination. Long considered harmless during pregnancy (doctors even administered it intravenously during labor), alcohol, when consumed by pregnant... A generation has passed since a physician first noticed that women who drank heavily while pregnant gave birth to underweight infants with disturbi... |
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Pregnancy and Renal Disorders
ISBN: 9780746200575 / Angielski / Twarda / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Almost every practising doctor will admit to difficulty in knowing how best to investigate, treat and advise the pregnant patient with renal problems. These doubts and difficulties may be exacerbated if the patient seeks pre-pregnancy advice - would a possible pregnancy cause a deterioration in renal function, what are the risks of the pregnancy for mother and baby? As the general public become more informed on medical matters these questions are being asked more frequently and doctors must be prepared to offer advice which is based on detailed factual knowledge. This book examines some of...
Almost every practising doctor will admit to difficulty in knowing how best to investigate, treat and advise the pregnant patient with renal problems....
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Children with Prenatal Drug Exposure
ISBN: 9780789002211 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Children With Prenatal Drug Exposure examines new medical approaches for predicting the developmental progress of children who have been exposed to drugs in utero. This book outlines effective methods for intervention and assessment and indicates future directions for investigation. It provides practical and up-to-date information on treatments and research development, while it encourages practitioners to come to their own conclusions through careful documentation and analysis of each case.
Children With Prenatal Drug Exposure examines new medical approaches for predicting the developmental progress of children who have been exposed to dr...
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238,96 |
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Alcohol and Alcoholism: Effects on Brain and Development
ISBN: 9780805826869 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first volume that focuses on the lifespan neurobehavioral factors likely to determine susceptibility to alcohol abuse and its consequences. The chapters offer careful analysis of the effects of ethanol on the fetus, the infant, the adolescent, and the adult. The authors include behavioral neuroscientists and clinical neuropsychologists. Their topics range from the neurochemical and neuroanatomical consequences of prenatal alcohol to the cognitive consequences of prenatal alcohol on preschool and school-age children. The impact of genetics on sensitivity to alcohol is considered in...
This is the first volume that focuses on the lifespan neurobehavioral factors likely to determine susceptibility to alcohol abuse and its consequences...
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Prenatal Medicine
ISBN: 9780824728441 / Angielski / Twarda / 648 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spanning the latest developments in the field, this source spans obstetric, medical, genetic, and surgical complications of pregnancy and their effects on both the mother and fetus discusses various diagnostic tests to detect chromosomal and structural abnormalities and genetic disorders that may affect the developing fetus covers new advancements in translational research, the use of genetics, and the evaluation of new technologies in maternal-fetal health and the prevention of disease evaluates new screening tests that may allow for earlier detection of fetal abnormalities and describes the...
Spanning the latest developments in the field, this source spans obstetric, medical, genetic, and surgical complications of pregnancy and their effect...
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Human Developmental Neurotoxicology
ISBN: 9780824729882 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This reference describes the most recent developments in the design, execution, and interpretation of human developmental neurotoxicology studies. Assessing critical issues and controversies in the field, this guide focuses on dose-response/effect relationships and explores challenges in the measurement of exposure to different types of chemicals, including selected metals, organic pollutants, pesticides, and recreational and therapeutic drugs.
This reference describes the most recent developments in the design, execution, and interpretation of human developmental neurotoxicology studies. Ass...
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A Perinatal Strategy for Preventing Adult Disease: The Role of Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
ISBN: 9781402070709 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and coronary heart disease are serious diseases affecting asignificantnumberofadults across the globe. Insulin resistance, low-grade systemic inflammation, low-birth weight, maternalproteinmalnutrition, neonatalhighcarbohydratediet, and high fat diet are associated with these diseases. On the other hand, adequatelybreast-fedsubjects are substantially at lowerrisk. Ifso, whatis the linkbetweenthese variousfactors?Onepossibilityisthat humanbreast milk containsfactorsthatconferresistancetothese modemdiseases.Here I present arguments that...
Obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and coronary heart disease are serious diseases affecting asignificantnumberofadults across the globe...
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Developmental Toxicology
ISBN: 9781420054378 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Highlighting latest advances in genetics and biochemistry, the completely revised Third Edition reviews the field from basic science, clinical, epidemiological, and regulatory perspectives. Contributions from top opinion leaders in the field bring together developments in molecular embryology and cell biology as they apply to problems in developmental toxicology. It covers testing of pharmaceutical and environmental agents and interpretation of developmental toxicology data, highlighting mathematical and statistical techniques, as well as the effects of toxic... Highlighting latest advances in genetics and biochemistry, the completely revised Third Edition reviews the field from ba... |
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Children with Prenatal Drug Exposure
ISBN: 9781560248378 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Children With Prenatal Drug Exposure examines new medical approaches for predicting the developmental progress of children who have been exposed to drugs in utero. This book outlines effective methods for intervention and assessment and indicates future directions for investigation. It provides practical and up-to-date information on treatments and research development, while it encourages practitioners to come to their own conclusions through careful documentation and analysis of each case.Children With Prenatal Drug Exposure cuts across many disciplines to provide the reader with...
Children With Prenatal Drug Exposure examines new medical approaches for predicting the developmental progress of children who have been exposed to dr...
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609,72 |
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Neonatal Immunity
ISBN: 9781588293190 / Angielski / Twarda / 389 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A critical review of the classic, as wells as most recent-and quite seminal-findings concerning the phenotypic and molecular characteristics of both fetal and neonatal B and T cells, the cells that mediate antibody and cellular immune responses in newborns and infants. Dr. Bona shows how the antibody response of neonates is modulated by maternal antibodies and how, in certain cases, this can cause transient or life-threatening neonatal autoimmune disease. He also describes the characteristics of neonatal tolerance induced by foreign allo- and self-antigens, which are the basis for...
A critical review of the classic, as wells as most recent-and quite seminal-findings concerning the phenotypic and molecular characteristics of both f...
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The Prenate and Neonate: An Illustrated Guide to the Transition to Extrauterine Life
ISBN: 9781842140444 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written for obstetricians and others involved in the health management of infants, this illustrated atlas provides an important visual guide to the correct diagnosis of the newborn at the moment of birth.
Written for obstetricians and others involved in the health management of infants, this illustrated atlas provides an important visual guide to the co...
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Handbook of Placental Pathology
ISBN: 9781842142325 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A user-friendly text, this book explores all the diagnostic challenges pathologists and obstetricians will face including updated sections on conditions such as preeclampsia and maternal diabetes mellitus.
A user-friendly text, this book explores all the diagnostic challenges pathologists and obstetricians will face including updated sections on conditio...
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560,94 |
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Inflammation and Pregnancy
ISBN: 9781842142721 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nowhere is the complex relation between inflammation and disease more apparent than in pregnancy. From the immune adaptation necessary for a mother to tolerate a genetically different fetus through gestation, to the role of inflammatory mediators in abnormalities of pregnancy such as pre-eclampsia and premature delivery, it is clear that inflammation plays a vital role in determining pregnancy outcome. In this authoritative text, an international panel of prestigious authors explores the complex relationship between inflammation, the mother, placenta and fetus. Providing comprehensive...
Nowhere is the complex relation between inflammation and disease more apparent than in pregnancy. From the immune adaptation necessary for a mother to...
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Handbook of Early Pregnancy Care
ISBN: 9781842143230 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Problems in early pregnancy are among the most common conditions in gynecology and - with management becoming less invasive and depending more on accurate ultrasound and a good understanding of serum biochemistry - many countries now recommend that all maternity units have an early pregnancy section dedicated to managing these conditions. In addition to this, the subject is also an essential part of the training syllabus in the speciality of maternal-fetal medicine. Handbook of Early Pregnancy Care is a practical guide for the management of at-risk early pregnancy. The chapters are concise,...
Problems in early pregnancy are among the most common conditions in gynecology and - with management becoming less invasive and depending more on accu...
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Psychological Challenges in Obstetrics and Gynecology: The Clinical Management
ISBN: 9781846288074 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By providing the background knowledge, the book empowers the obstetrician/gynecologist to be in the key coordinating role, and to communicate effectively with all parties and health workers involved in psychological care. It meets the needs of doctors not covered by their training (e.g. Communication skills, coping and adjustment in pregnancy, communicating with cancer patients). Chapters show how to use the consultation to maximum benefit for the patient and doctor. Easy-to-read with stand-alone chapters, this book covers key aspects of O and G, and addresses areas not covered in... By providing the background knowledge, the book empowers the obstetrician/gynecologist to be in the key coordinating role, and to communicate effec... |
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Listening to Gynaecological Patients' Problems
ISBN: 9781852331092 / Angielski / Miękka / 97 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gynaecological textbooks are divided into sections according to pathological diagnoses, not according to symptoms or symptom complexes. Students of gynaecology, because they initially acquire information from textbooks are conditioned by the organisation of these texts to think of gynaecology in terms of pathological entities rather than symptom complexes. Gynaecological patients, however, do not present complaining of endometriosis or endometrial malignancy or hypophyseal-ovarian dysfunction; rather, they present with symptoms such as 'pain low down in the tummy', 'bleeding from the front...
Gynaecological textbooks are divided into sections according to pathological diagnoses, not according to symptoms or symptom complexes. Students of gy...
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Crucial Decisions at the Beginning of Life: Parents' Experiences of Treatment Withdrawl from Infants
ISBN: 9781857754797 / Angielski / Miękka / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a unique and valuable work, which traces the experiences of over 100 parents who have lived through the loss of a baby. It follows them from pregnancy through to13 months after the death. Based on rigorous scientific research it describes their feelings when crucial decisions are made on behalf of their child, and examines their capacity to take responsibility for such decisions. By analysing those factors which help or hinder them, the book provides guidance to health professionals on how the services they offer may be improved. Neonatologists, paediatricians, midwives and neonatal...
This is a unique and valuable work, which traces the experiences of over 100 parents who have lived through the loss of a baby. It follows them from p...
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To Treat or Not to Treat: The Ethical Methodology of Richard A. McCormick, S.J., as Applied to Treatment Decisions for Handicapped Newborns
ISBN: 9781881871446 / Angielski / Miękka / 349 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Medical and ethical decision concerning treatment for handicapped newborns have always been difficult. Despite technological advances, parents and health-care professionals still search for criteria that will address treatment categories from an ethical standpoint. Richard A. McCormick, a leading Roman Catholic moral theologian, has proposed a patient-centered, quality-of-life approach to treatment decision that appears to meet the needs of decision-makers. Peter A. Clark applies McCormick's ethical approach to five categories of handicapped newborns as a practical demonstration of the...
Medical and ethical decision concerning treatment for handicapped newborns have always been difficult. Despite technological advances, parents and hea...
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117,02 |
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Radiological Imaging of the Neonatal Chest
ISBN: 9783540337485 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This brilliantly illustrated second edition provides a comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of the subject. It is written primarily from the point of view of the paediatric radiologist but will be of particular interest to all those involved in caring for the neonate, from antenatal ultrasonographers, to paediatricians and paediatric surgeons. It includes an update on clinical management and appraises the advantages of the various techniques available to image the newborn chest. This brilliantly illustrated second edition provides a comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of the subject. It is written primarily from the poi... |
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Cancer and Pregnancy
ISBN: 9783540712725 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Te European School of Oncology is delighted to ber of female former cancer patients expected to see that the faculty of its course on cancer and have a successful pregnancy. pregnancy has succeeded--and in a remarkably Another group of individuals that deserves short time--in producing this greatly stimulat - our attention are women who have survived a ing book. childhood cancer and who should be managed Very few human and clinical situations en - by a multidisciplinary specialist team. Fort- compass such opposite extremes as pregnancy nately, many studies are underway and we hope and cancer,...
Te European School of Oncology is delighted to ber of female former cancer patients expected to see that the faculty of its course on cancer and have ...
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