Antepartum Care
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Auditory Evoked Response Test to Evaluate Fetal Health: A new method to evaluate intrauterine fetal asphyxia.
Center for Prenatal Diagnosis This page is designed to make available obstetric and gynecologic ultrasound images for professional education and information. You may want to use these pages for learning image recognition or to compare with images that you have obtained. On these pages there are both normal and abnormal findings as well as some clinical information pertinent to interpretation / management of the abnormal ones. There are images from all three trimesters of pregnancy both normal and abnormal.
Eurofoetus Eurofoetus is a European Commission funded research group launching a registry for fetoscopy, and a randomised and observational study for treatment of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome.
The Florida Institute for Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy The Florida Institute for Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy is a non-profit organization established to provide patients and physicians with the latest and most advanced resources in the field of Prenatal Diagnosis and Therapy. Many conditions once thought fatal are treatable including TTTS, acardic twin, amniotic bands, and fetal bladder obstruction.
Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities - CliniWeb A collection by the Oregon Health Sciences University
Obstetrical Ultrasound This paper covers the subjects of: Objectives of Obstetric Ultrasound, First Trimester Evaluation and Pathology, Gestational Age Past Ten Weeks, Multiple Gestations, Fetal Pathology, Hydrops Fetalis, Placenta Amniotic Fluid, Genetic Screening Methods, Syndromes and Associated Malformations.
Postpartum
Depression
By Kathryn A. Leopold, MD, Lauren B. Zoschnick, MD
Despite the recent growth in publicity, postpartum depression is still all too often unrecognized or cavalierly
dismissed. However, this common disorder is readily diagnosed and treated by the primary care physician who is
willing to take the most basic measures.
Reprinted with permission from The Female Patient
Prenatal Diagnosis Home Page
This page is designed to provide information for patients, physicians, and other
health care professionals relating to diagnostic modalities used in Fetal Medicine. Website
of
Greggory
R. DeVore, MD, OBGYN.net Editorial Advisor
Prenatal-Diagnostics/bionet.diagnostics.prenatal Newsgroup Archive A Web front end to the forum with searchable archives.
Pregnancy and the Fetus - CHORUS CHORUS is based on Fact/File, a radiology hypertext reference that has been integrated with a clinical radiology information system (at the University of Chicago) since 1990.
Screening for Chlamydial Infection Routine testing for Chlamydia trachomatis is recommended for asymptomatic persons at high risk of infection. Pregnant women in high risk categories should be tested at the first prenatal visit. Ophthalmic antibiotics should be applied topically to the eyes of all newborns immediately after birth to help prevent ophthalmia neonatorum.
Ultrasound of Early Pregnancy The visualization of early structures benefits from high resolution technique. In most cases, ultrasound probes designed to operate in the vagina provide the best resolution, and a necessary whenever definitive diagnosis cannot be made by standard scanning.
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