Research Catalog

Title

Genetic disorders and the fetus : diagnosis, prevention, and treatment / edited by Aubrey Milunsky.

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University press, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional Authors

Milunsky, Aubrey.

Description

xvii, 1074 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

• Fetal Diseases > genetics
• Fetus > Genetic aspects
• Genetic Diseases, Inborn
• Prenatal Diagnosis
• Prenatal diagnosis

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Genetic Counseling: Preconception, Prenatal, and Perinatal / Aubrey Milunsky and Jeff Milunsky -- 2. Amniocentesis and Fetal Blood Sampling / Sherman Elias, Joe Leigh Simpson and Allan T. Bombard -- 3. Amniotic Fluid / Louis Dallaire and Michel Potier -- 4. Fluid Cell Culture / Holger W. Hoehn -- 5. Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis through Chorionic Villus Sampling / Bruno Brambati and Lucia Tului -- 6. Prenatal Diagnosis of Chromosomal Abnormalities through Amniocentesis / Lillian Y. F. Hsu -- 7. Prenatal Diagnosis of Sex Chromosome Abnormalities / Arthur Robinson, Mary G. Linden and Bruce G. Bender -- 8. Molecular Cytogenetics and Prenatal Diagnosis / Stuart Schwartz -- 9. Prenatal Diagnosis of the Fragile X Syndrome / Edmund C. Jenkins and W. Ted Brown -- 10. Molecular Genetics and Prenatal Diagnosis / Cindy L. Vnencak-Jones and John A. Phillips III -- 11. Prenatal Diagnosis of Disorders of Lipid Metabolism / David A. Wenger --
• 12. Prenatal Diagnosis of Disorders of Mucopolysaccharide Metabolism / Gideon Bach -- 13. Prenatal Diagnosis of the Metabolic Disorders of Amino Acids and Related Compounds / Vivian E. Shih and Roseann Mandell -- 14. Prenatal Diagnosis of Disorders of Carbohydrate Metabolism / Yuan-Tsong Chen -- 15. Prenatal Diagnosis of Cystic Fibrosis / Gerald L. Feldman and Kristin G. Monaghan -- 16. Prenatal Diagnosis and Treatment of Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia / Lenore S. Levine and Songya Pang -- 17. Prenatal Diagnosis of Inborn Errors of Folate and Cobalamin Metabolism and of Cystinosis / David S. Rosenblatt -- 18. Prenatal Diagnosis of Primary Immune-Deficiency Diseases / Jennifer M. Puck -- 19. Prenatal Diagnosis of the Hemoglobinopathies / John M. Old -- 20. Prenatal Diagnosis of Connective Tissue Disorders / Leah Weyerts Burke and Reed E. Pyeritz -- 21. Maternal Serum Screening for Neural Tube and Other Defects / Aubrey Milunsky --
• 22. Multianalyte Maternal Serum Screening for Chromosomal Defects / Aubrey Milunsky -- 23. Prenatal Diagnosis of Fetal Malformations by Ultrasound / Yves G. Ville, Kypros H. Nicolaides and Stuart Campbell -- 24. Prenatal Diagnosis and Management of Abnormal Fetal Development in the Third Trimester of Pregnancy / J. W. Wladimiroff, Roger R. Heydanus and E. M. Schoonderwaldt -- 25. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Fetus / Anne M. Hubbard and James S. Meyer -- 26. Induced Abortion for Genetic Indications: Techniques and Complications / Lee P. Shulman, Sherman Elias and Joe Leigh Simpson -- 27. Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis / Yury Verlinsky and Anver Kuliev -- 28. Prenatal Diagnosis through the Analysis of Fetal Cells in the Maternal Circulation / Diana W. Bianchi -- 29. Fetal Therapy / Mark I. Evans, Alan W. Flake and Michael R. Harrison [et al.] -- 30. Medicolegal Aspects of Prenatal Diagnosis / Mary Z. Pelias -- 31. Ethics and Prenatal Diagnosis / Darryl Macer --
• App. Prenatal Diagnosis of Additional Miscellaneous Genetic Disorders.

ISBN

0801858011 (alk. paper)

LCCN

97041341

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries