Preterm Birth
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Preterm Birth

Mechanisms, Mediators, Prediction, Prevention & Interventions

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  2. English
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Preterm Birth

Mechanisms, Mediators, Prediction, Prevention & Interventions

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Preterm delivery is probably the most important problem in obstetrics, and a major public health concern. Recent developments - such as the preventive use of progesterone, and new data on possible mechanisms of initiation of parturition - have placed the topic at the forefront of the interests and preoccupation of many in maternal-fetal medicine an

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Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9780203931646
Edition
1
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Gynecology, Obstetrics & Midwifery

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Contents
  3. Contributors
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. SECTION I: MECHANISMS
  7. Chapter 1. Myometrial programming: a new concept underlying the regulation of myometrial function during pregnancy
  8. Chapter 2. Cervical function during pregnancy and parturition
  9. Chapter 3. Endocrine and paracrine mechanisms in human placenta and fetal membranes in preterm birth
  10. Chapter 4. Stress and the pathophysiology of human birth
  11. SECTION II; MEDIATORS
  12. CHAPTER 5. Undernutrition, preterm birth, and the prostaglandin pathway
  13. Chapter 6. Gene redundancy in parturition: lessons for tocolysis?
  14. Chapter 7. Regulation of inflammatory response pathways during pregnancy and labor
  15. Chapter 8. Matrix biology and preterm birth
  16. Chapter 9. Nitric oxide
  17. Chapter 10. Relaxin-related preterm birth
  18. SECTION III: METHODS OF PREDICTION AND PREVENTION
  19. Chapter 11. Biochemical markers of preterm delivery
  20. Chapter 12. Biophysical methods of prediction and prevention of preterm labor: uterine electromyography and cervical light-induced fluorescence-new obstetrical diagnostic techiques
  21. Chapter 13. Genetics of preterm delivery
  22. SECTION IV: CURRENT STATUS OF INTERVENTIONS
  23. Chapter 14. Calcium-channel blockers and betamimetics
  24. Chapter 15. Prostaglandins, oxytocin, and antagonists
  25. Chapter 16. Progestational agents and labor
  26. Chapter 17. Antenatal corticosteroid treatment
  27. Chapter 18. Monitoring the growth-restricted fetus during the preterm period
  28. Index
  29. Back cover