Features

The only textbook on the fetus as patient focussing entirely on fetal therapy.
Extensively revised chapters present the very latest techniques.


I. THE FETUS AS A PATIENT--A WOMB WITH A VIEW
Chapter 1: Professional Considerations in Fetal Treatment
Chapter 2: Historical Considerations
Chapter 3: Ethical Considerations
Chapter 4: Legal Considerations in Fetal Treatment

II. DIAGNOSITIC AND THERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES--A VIEW INTO THE WOMB
Chapter 5: The Rationale for Fetal Treatment: Selection, Feasibility, and Risk
Chapter 6: Sonongraphic Anatomy of the Normal Fetus
Chapter 7: Sonography for Fetal Thoracic Intervention
Chapter 8: Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Computed Tomography of the Fetus
Chapter 9: Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques
Chapter 10: Anesthesia and Monitoring Fetal Intervention
Chapter 11: Preterm Labor: The Achilles' Heel of Fetal Intervention
Chapter 12: New Tocolytic Strategies for Fetal Surgery: Efficacy and Fetomaterna; Safety of Nitroglycerin
Chapter 13: Percutaneous Sonographically Guided Interventions: Catheters and Shunts
Chapter 14: Percutaneous Fetoscopically Guided Intervention
Chapter 15: Obstetric Endoscopy
Chapter 16: Operative Fetoscopy: FETENDO
Chapter 17: Open Fetal Surgical Techniques

III. FETAL ANATOMIC DEFECTS AMENABLE TO TREATMENT--THE CRAFT OF FETAL TREATMENT
Chapter 18: Fetal Obstructive Uropathy
Chapter 19: The Fetus with a Lung Mass
Chapter 20: The Fetus with Diaphragmatic Hernia
Chapter 21: The Fetus with Sacroccocygeal Teratoma
Chapter 22: The Fetus with Hydrocephalus
Chapter 23: The Fetus with Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome
Chapter 24: The Fetus with Airway Obstruction
Chapter 25: Fetus with Hydrothorax
Chapter 26: The Fetus with Congential Heart Disease
Chapter 27: The Fetus with Cardiac Arrythmia
Chapter 28: Fetus with Meningomyelocele
Chapter 29: Intrauterine Myelomeningocele Repair
Chapter 30: The Fetus with Cleft Lip/Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies
Chapter 31: The Fetus with Abdominal Wall Defect
Chapter 32: The Fetus with Amniotic Band Syndrome

IV. FETAL METABOLIC AND CELLULAR DEFECTS AMENABLE TO TREATMENT--
THE ART OF FETAL TREATMENT
Chapter 33: The Fetus with Biochemical Defect
Chapter 34: The Fetus with Immune Hydrops
Chapter 35: The Fetus with Non-Immune Hydrops
Chapter 36: The Fetus at Risk for Thrombicytopenia
Chapter 37: The Fetus with a Hematopietic Stem Cell
Defect
Chapter 38: Ontogeny of the Fetal Immune System: Implications for Fetal Tolerance Induction and Postnatal Transplantation
Chapter 39: Fetal Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Chapter 40: The Fetus with a Genetic Defect Correctable by Gene Therapy
III. POSTNATAL MANAGEMENT: SOCIAL SECURITY FOR THE FETUS
Chapter 41: Postnatal Follow-up and Outcomes
Chapter 42: The Fetus with Complex Genitourinary Anomalies
Chapter 43: Fetal Tissue Engineering
Chapter 44: Fetal Wound Healing: The Role of Homeobox Genes
Chapter 45: Advanced Technologies for Future Fetal Treatment: Surgical Robotics