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La medicina prenatale costituisce il settore in maggiore espansione e il futuro dell'ostetricia moderna. La sempre maggiore diffusione di tecnologie innovative per lo studio del feto in utero e nuove metodiche diagnostiche entrate nella pratica clinica hanno infatti, di recente, notevolmente ampliato le conoscenze sulla fisiologia e fisiopatologia fetale. Il prodotto del concepimento, fin dalle prime fasi del suo sviluppo, è diventato un "paziente" raggiungibile ed esplorabile e ciò ha aperto la via a nuove possibilità diagnostiche e terapeutiche del tutto insperate. Questo testo si propone di rispondere alla effettiva necessità di riunire in un unico e aggiornato testo di riferimento nozioni e dati di diversa estrazione, essenziali tutti per un ottimale monitoraggio della gravidanza.

Fetus --- Prenatal diagnosis. --- Diseases --- Diagnosis. --- Abnormalities. --- Antenatal diagnosis --- Intrauterine diagnosis --- Prenatal testing --- Diagnosis --- Obstetrics --- Abnormalities, Human --- Prenatal diagnosis --- Abnormities and deformities

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Congenital Abnormalities --- Prenatal Diagnosis --- Antenatal diagnosis --- Intrauterine diagnosis --- Prenatal testing --- Diagnosis --- Obstetrics --- Abnormalities --- Anomalies, Congenital --- Birth defects --- Congenital abnormalities --- Congenital anomalies --- Defects, Birth --- Deformities --- Developmental abnormalities --- Human abnormalities --- Malformations, Congenital --- Morphology --- Pathology --- Teratogenesis --- Teratology --- history

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An ethnographic study of fetoscopy that considers both the broader cultural context of this high-risk obstetrical procedure and the patient's individual experience.In Looking Within, Deborah Blizzard examines the high-risk in utero surgery known as fetoscopy, considering it as both cutting-edge medical technology and as a sociocultural construction of patients, their social networks, and medical providers. She looks at the way individual experiences shape these procedures and how fetoscopy affects individuals (both patients and providers) on a personal, emotional level. Based on an eleven-month ethnographic study of the fetoscopy practice at a community-based hospital and further interviews with former patients, Looking Within offers a vivid picture of the sometimes conflicted, often desperate, and always emotional lives of those undergoing fetoscopy, and challenges current assumptions about normal and appropriate pregnancy experiences. To convey the complex reality of fetoscopy, Blizzard draws from the experiences of the real patients she interviewed for the book to present the fictional case of Melinda and Joe, taking them through the entire process, from diagnosis to decision to outcome. She then discusses the emergence of fetoscopy as an accepted form of high-risk obstetrical care, how fetoscopy programs are established at hospitals, and why otherwise healthy women consent to surgery. Blizzard examines the use of fetoscopy in single-fetus and in twin pregnancies, looking at how religion, culture, society, and medical science inform any understanding of who or what is in utero (a baby? a tumor? a mass?). She also discusses definitions of loss and success, and the narratives patients and their social networks construct to make sense of them. Looking Within will help physicians and nurses improve the development and delivery of fetoscopy procedures, help patients understand this new technology, and help scholars evaluate fetoscopy's bioethical, social, and cultural implications.

Fetoscopy --- Social medicine. --- Prenatal diagnosis. --- Social aspects. --- Antenatal diagnosis --- Intrauterine diagnosis --- Prenatal testing --- Medical care --- Medical sociology --- Medicine --- Medicine, Social --- Direct fetal visualization --- Direct intrauterine visualization --- Fetal visualization, Direct --- Intrauterine visualization, Direct --- Visualization, Direct fetal --- Social aspects --- Diagnosis --- Obstetrics --- Public health --- Public welfare --- Sociology --- Medical ethics --- Medical sociologists --- Endoscopy --- Prenatal diagnosis --- PHILOSOPHY/Ethics & Bioethics

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Richly illustrated and comprehensive in scope, Obstetric Imaging, 2nd Edition, provides up-to-date, authoritative guidelines for more than 200 obstetric conditions and procedures, keeping you at the forefront of this fast-changing field. This highly regarded reference covers the extensive and ongoing advances in maternal and fetal imaging in a concise, newly streamlined format for quicker access to common and uncommon findings. Detailed, expert guidance, accompanied by superb, high-quality images, helps you make the most of new technologies and advances in obstetric imaging. -- Publisher

Congenital Abnormalities --- Fetus --- Prenatal Diagnosis. --- diagnostic imaging. --- abnormalities. --- Antenatal Diagnosis --- Antenatal Screening --- Diagnosis, Antenatal --- Diagnosis, Intrauterine --- Prenatal Screening --- Diagnosis, Prenatal --- Fetal Diagnosis --- Fetal Imaging --- Fetal Screening --- Intrauterine Diagnosis --- Antenatal Diagnoses --- Antenatal Screenings --- Diagnosis, Fetal --- Fetal Diagnoses --- Fetal Imagings --- Fetal Screenings --- Imaging, Fetal --- Intrauterine Diagnoses --- Prenatal Diagnoses --- Prenatal Screenings --- Screening, Antenatal --- Screening, Fetal --- Screening, Prenatal --- Genetic Testing --- Neonatal Screening --- Preimplantation Diagnosis --- Genetic Services

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Too often, in the debate over reproductive rights and technologies, we lose sight of the fundamental emotional and psychological issues that define the experience of pregnancy. Robin Gregg here draws on the words and stories of over thirty women to provide a first- hand perspective on pregnancy in the modern age.In an age where a new advance in reproductive technology occurs seemingly every month, pregnancy has come to be defined by such medical procedures as prenatal screening, amniocentesis, fetal monitoring, induced labor, and cesarean sections. Public policymakers, ethicists, religious figures, and the medical establishment control the debate, drowning out the voices of women who grapple in the most immediate sense with the issues. Even feminist theorists often overlook the nuances and paradoxes of the reproductive revolution as experienced by individual, particular women.The reader follows these thirty women as they speak about whether to become pregnant, and by what means; how to choose a health provider; what meaning they attribute to their pregnancies; and how they navigate their way through the contradictory pressures they face during pregnancy. The intimate nature of Gregg's research, consisting as it does largely of women's pregnancy narratives, lends her book a vibrancy often lacking in academic writing about reproduction.

Pregnancy --- Prenatal diagnosis --- Choice (Psychology) --- Social control. --- Decision making. --- Psychological aspects. --- Social conflict --- Sociology --- Liberty --- Pressure groups --- Psychology --- Antenatal diagnosis --- Intrauterine diagnosis --- Prenatal testing --- Diagnosis --- Obstetrics --- Pregnant women --- Gestation --- Conception --- Physiology --- Reproduction --- Prenatal Diagnosis --- Social Control --- Medical --- Social Science --- Health & Fitness --- Choice (psychology) --- Social control --- Social science --- Health & fitness