Bookeditor-in-chief: Siegfried Zabransky ; contributors: Miguel Alejandre Alcázar...[et al.].
Summary: 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.
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.