Stillbirth - Understanding and Management

Facchinetti - stillbirth
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Authors/editors: Fabio Facchinetti, Gustaaf A Dekker, Dante Baronciani and George Saade
ISBN: 978-0-415-47390-3
Page count: 126
Publisher: Informa
Publication year: 2010

Stillbirth remains a sufficiently frequent outcome of pregnancy to pose great problems for clinicians, who have to treat extremely distressed patients. This concise but comprehensive book from an international team of contributors sets out clear guidelines for clinical procedures and patient management for the obstetrician, as well as the gynecologist and the gynecologic pathologist.

Table of contents:

Background

1. Definition and epidemiology of stillbirths

2. Lifestyle-related risk factors for stillbirth and their prevention

3. Maternal disorders and stillbirth

4. Stillbirth: obstetric conditions

5. Prediction and prevention of recurrent stillbirth

6. Stillbirths and prevention strategies in developing and developed countries

Clinical

7. Essential diagnostic workup of stillbirths

8. Pathology investigations for stillbirth

9. Hospital management of the couple following stillbirth

10. Counseling following intrauterine fetal death (stillbirth)

Understanding Causes

11. Perinatal clinical audit

12. Classification of stillbirth: a global approach

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