Fetal Medicine - Basic Science and Clinical Practice (2nd edition)

EARLY FETAL DEVELOPMENT

1. Early concepts and terminology
2. Cellular mechanisms and embryonic tissues
3. Staging embryos in development and the embryonic body plan
4. Development of the head
5. Development of the heart

THE PLACENTA

1. The immunology of implantation
2. Development of the placenta and its circulation
3. Placental function and maternofetal exchange
4. Maternofetal trafficking

FETAL PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY

1. Development of the cardiovascular system
2. Lung growth and maturation
3. Development of the kidneys and urinary tract
4. Maternal medicines and the fetus
5. The perinatal postmortem

EPIDEMIOLOGY

1. Epidemiological techniques in fetal medicine.

ETHICS

1. Ethical issues in maternal-fetal medicine

PRENATAL SCREENING AND DIAGNOSIS

1. Conveying information about screening
2. Parental reaction to prenatal diagnosis and subsequent bereavement
3. Prenatal screening for open neural tube defects and Down's syndrome
4. Ultrasound screening for fetal abnormalities and aneuploidies in the first and second trimesters
5. Non-invasive screening and diagnosis from maternal blood
6. Invasive diagnostic procedures
7. Cytogenetics
8. Mandelian genetics - the old and the new
9. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
10. Haemaglobinopathies
11. Prenatal screening for thalassemias
12. Cystic fibrosis
13. Inborn errors of metabolism

DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF FETAL MALFORMATIONS

1. Sonography of the fetal central nervous system
2. The heart
3. Fetal lung lesions
4. Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
5. Abdomen
6. Kidney and urinary tract disorders
7. Fetal skeletal abnormalities
8. Fetal hydrops
9. Fetal tumors

DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF OTHER FETAL CONDITIONS

1. Fetal growth and growth restriction
2. Red cell alloimmunization
3. Fetal platelet disorders
4. Treatable fetal endocrine and metabolic disorders
5. Early pregnancy failure
6. Fetal infections
7. Amniotic fluid
8. Multiple pregnancy
9. In utero stem cell transplantation
10. Fetal gene therapy

THE NEONATE

1. Interface of fetal and neonatal medicine