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You've discovered that you or someone you care about is pregnant. After that initial rush of excitement, you start to have a lot of questions. Is the baby healthy? Is he or she growing well? From the moment a woman suspects that she is pregnant, the testing begins, and so do the questions. Can she trust the home pregnancy test kits? When is it time to go to the doctor or midwife? After coming to terms with the fact that pregnancy has occurred, the next step is often to worry aboutwhether everything is progressing normally. With this book, expectant parents will find a clear timeline and explan

Prenatal diagnosis --- Obstetrics --- Obstetrical diagnosis --- Diagnosis --- Antenatal diagnosis --- Intrauterine diagnosis --- Prenatal testing --- Diagnosis.

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This book provides a concise yet comprehensive source of current information on Down syndrome. Research workers, scientists, medical graduates and paediatricians will find it an excellent source for reference and review. This book focuses on exciting areas of research on prenatal diagnosis - Down syndrome screening after assisted reproduction techniques, noninvasive techniques, genetic counselling and ethical issues. Whilst aimed primarily at research worker on Down syndrome, we hope that the appeal of this book will extend beyond the narrow confines of academic interest and be of interest to a wider audience, especially parents and relatives of Down syndrome patients.

Down syndrome. --- Prenatal diagnosis. --- Antenatal diagnosis --- Intrauterine diagnosis --- Prenatal testing --- Diagnosis --- Obstetrics --- 21 trisomy --- Down's syndrome --- Mongolism --- Mongolism (Disease) --- Trisomy 21 --- Human chromosome abnormalities --- Intellectual disability --- Syndromes --- Human chromosome 21 --- Medical genetics

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Prenatal diagnosis. --- Genetic counseling. --- Health counseling --- Antenatal diagnosis --- Intrauterine diagnosis --- Prenatal testing --- Diagnosis --- Obstetrics --- Prenatal Diagnosis --- Genetic Counseling --- Counseling, Genetic --- Genetic Counseling, Prenatal --- Prenatal Genetic Counseling --- Eugenics --- Directive Counseling --- 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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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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This book presents a comprehensive and modern approach to the imaging of nontraumatic and traumatic emergencies in pregnant patients. Readers will find a careful review of the relevant imaging-related clinical literature, explanation of imaging appropriateness criteria and guidelines, and enlightening discussion of current controversies in the emergency imaging of obstetric patients. The opening chapter discusses general principles of emergency imaging during pregnancy and offers an overview of an evidence-based approach to imaging interpretation. The remainder of the book describes specific applications of ultrasound, MRI, radiography, and MDCT for the imaging of common as well as less common acute brain, spine, thoracic, abdominal, and pelvic conditions during pregnancy. Clear guidance is offered on the unique challenges that may be encountered during such imaging. Emergency Imaging of Pregnant Patients is written by a group of leading North American and European emergency and trauma radiology experts. It will be of value to emergency and general radiologists, to emergency department physicians and related personnel, to obstetricians and gynecologists, to general and trauma surgeons, and to trainees in all of these specialties.

Radiology. --- Gynecology . --- Imaging / Radiology. --- Gynecology. --- Gynaecology --- Medicine --- Generative organs, Female --- Radiological physics --- Physics --- Radiation --- Diseases --- Pregnant women --- Emergency medicine --- Prenatal diagnosis. --- Pregnancy --- Radiography. --- Diagnosis. --- Complications --- Diagnostic imaging. --- Gestation --- Conception --- Physiology --- Reproduction --- Antenatal diagnosis --- Intrauterine diagnosis --- Prenatal testing --- Diagnosis --- Obstetrics --- Emergency medical diagnosis --- Medical emergencies --- Diagnosis, Radioscopic --- Radiography, Medical --- Radiography in obstetrics