The Placenta and Neurodisability, 2nd Edition
Product Type: Print Edition (Complete Book)
ISBN: 9781909962538
Series: Clinics in Developmental Medicine
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: November 2015
Page count: 176
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Many neurodevelopmental deficits originate in the perinatal period and there is increasing awareness of the need to look to early life, including prenatal life, to understand the origins of cognitive development and risk of neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases.
This comprehensive and authoritative book is structured in a logical way from pathology to clinical outcome. Throughout, information from the basic sciences is placed within the clinical context, and there is excellent use of illustrative figures and images. Written by leading obstetricians, neonatologists, paediatricians and pathologists, this volume collates the ever-increasing evidence, both pathological and epidemiological, for the critical role of the utero-placenta in neurodisability, both at term and preterm. It encapsulates new advances in antepartum and perinatal imaging, new clinical aspects of fetal compromise, recent evidence of endocrine, haematological and inflammatory origins of utero-placental dysfunction, and possible cerebro-protective interventions. This text is essential reading for everyone concerned with child development and the in utero origins of neurological disability.
- Written by leading obstetricians, neonatologists, paediatricians and pathologists
- Discusses the role of placenta in the pathophysiology of CNS
- Examines recent evidence of endocrine, haematological and inflammatory origins of utero-placental dysfunction
- Reviews latest advances in antepartum and perinatal imaging
Readership
Obstetricians, neonatologists, pathologists and basic scientists.
Clinics in Developmental Medicine Series
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Placental pathology and perinatal brain injury
- Raymond Redline
- 2. Abnormal Placental Phenotypes
- Colin Sibley and Michelle Desforges
- 3. Aberrant placental endocrinology, fetal growth and neurodevelopment
- Jayne Charnoc and Melissa Westwood
- 4. The rheology of utero-placental and feto-placental blood flow
- Ian Crocker
- 5. Inflammation and Placentation
- Karen Racicot and Gil Mor
- 6. Infections and the fetal inflammatory response
- Donald Peebles and Catherine James
- 7. Cerebral ischaemia and white matter injury
- Suresh Victor and Michael Weindling
- 8. In utero imaging of the human placenta
- Emma Ingram and Ed Johnstone
- 9. Cerebral Function and Fetal Growth Restriction
- Irene Cetin and Valentina Brusati
- 10. Placental programming and mental illness: fetal growth and schizophrenia
- Kathryn Abel and Martin Allin
- 11. Cerebro-therapeutics
- Philip Steer
- 12. Summing up and unsolved problems
- Karin Nelson
'I personally found this text interesting because it challenged me to think about how placental pathology may provide clues to mechanisms of fetal brain injury. Neonatologists, pathologist, obstetricians, neonatal neurologists, and basic scientists will all find something of interest in this edition. Above all this book reminds us that the placenta is an active participant in pregnancy and fetal brain development and is a frontier rich for future investigation.' Margie A. Ream, Journal of Child Neurology, 2016
'The book is a recommended reading for colleagues interested in the very complex interplay and relationships of maternal, placental, and fetal factors relevant for fetal brain development.' Eugen Boltshauser, Neuropediatrics, 2016
'The book is composed of 12 fairly independent reviews on various aspects of placental pathology and its contribution to neurodevelopment. The first chapter is an overview of the subject and the last chapter is a summary and review of unsolved problems by Dr. Nelson. Chapters on inflammation, infection, fetal growth restriction, and in-utero imaging are examples of the topics the book covers. An interesting chapter on cerebro-therapeutics discusses some of the common therapies used today, such as magnesium sulfate, cooling, antibiotics, and even the approach to the breech presentation, although much of this clinical discussion is rather superficial. There are some good color plates at the end of the book.' Jay Goldsmith, MD, Tulane University School of Medicine