Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Factors of High-Risk Pregnancy. 1. Maternal Nutrition and Fetal Development / Carol West Suitor and Pedro Rosso. 2. Risks of Alcohol Consumption / Robert A. Welch and Robert J. Sokol. 3. Substance Abuse and Pregnancy / Preston Gazaway. 4. Environmental Toxicants and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome / Anthony R. Scialli and Armand Lione. 5. Medications in Early Pregnancy / Neil K. Kochenour. 6. Medications in Late Pregnancy and Lactation / Jennifer R. Niebyl -- Pt. 2. Procedures. 7. Chorionic Villus Sampling / Sherman Elias and Joe Leigh Simpson. 8. Amniocentesis / John T. Queenan. 9. Direct Umbilical Fetal Blood Sampling: Cordocentesis / John W. Seeds. 10. Ultrasonography / John T. Queenan and Steven L. Warsof -- Pt. 3. Genetics. 11. Genetic Screening for Mendelian Disorders / Carole M. Meyers and Sherman Elias. 12. Maternal Serum Screening / Gary S. Eglinton and Frank D. Seydel. 13. Antenatal Diagnosis of Inborn Errors of Metabolism / William L. Nyhan.

14. Antenatal Diagnosis by DNA analysis / Jane Chueh and Mitchell S. Golbus -- Pt. 4. Monitoring: Biochemical and Biophysical. 15. Biochemical Profile of the Fetus / Houchang D. Modanlou. 16. Fetal Lung Maturity / Steven G. Gabbe. 17. Antepartum Fetal Monitoring / Barry S. Schifrin and Daniel Clement. 18. Interpreting Fetal Heart Tracings / Thomas J. Garite and Richard A. Pircon. 19. Fetal Movements / Eliahu Sadovsky -- Pt. 5. Maternal Disease. 20. Sickle Cell Anemia / Edgar O. Horger III. 21. Thrombocytopenia: The ITP and TTP Syndromes / David Z. Kitay. 22. The Cardiac Patient / Kent Ueland. 23. Renal Disease / Marshall D. Lindheimer and Adrian I. Katz. 24. The Renal Transplant Recipient / Joseph V. Collea, Mohammad R. Alijani and Irwin R. Merkatz. 25. Gestational Diabetes / Donald R. Coustan. 26. Diabetes Mellitus / Steven G. Gabbe. 27. Hyperthyroidism and Hypothyroidism / Jorge H. Mestman. 28. Asthma / J. Patrick Lavery. 29. Epilepsy / S. Roy Meadow. 30. Chronic Hypertension / Frederick P. Zuspan.

31. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus / Robert Resnick. 32. Toxoplasmosis / John L. Sever and Antonio V. Sison. 33. Rubella / Dorothy M. Horstmann. 34. Cytomegalovirus Infections in Pregnancy and the Neonate / Antonio V. Sison and John L. Sever. 35. Varicella-Zoster Infection / David A. Baker. 36. Herpes Simplex Infection / Marvin S. Amstey. 37. Group B Streptoccocus Infection / Mara J. Dinsmoor. 38. Viral Hepatitis / Manley Cohen and Hartley Cohen. 39. Parvovirus B19 Infection (Fifth Disease) / Philip B. Mead. 40. HIV Infection / Howard L. Minkoff and Deepak Nanda -- Pt. 6. Pregnancy Complications. 41. Genetic Causes of Spontaneous Abortion / Joe Leigh Simpson. 42. Nongenetic Causes of Recurrent Fetal Loss / Sandra Ann Carson. 43. The Incompetent Cervix / Jennifer R. Niebyl. 44. Preeclampsia-Eclampsia / Baha M. Sibai. 45. Emergency Care in Pregnancy / Robert H. Hayashi. 46. Intrauterine Growth Retardation / John T. Queenan. 47. The IUGR Neonate / William Oh.

48. Rh and Other Blood Group Immunizations / John T. Queenan. 49. Multiple Gestation / J. Patrick O'Grady. 50. Polyhydramnios and Oligohydramnios / John T. Queenan. 51. Premature Labor / Tom P. Barden. 52. Prematurity: Prevention and Treatment / Jay D. Iams. 53. Infection in Premature Rupture of the Membranes / Kyung Seo, James A. McGregor and Janice I. French. 54. Placenta Previa and Related Disorders / Charles J. Lockwood. 55. Placental Abruption / Steven L. Clark -- Pt. 7. Complications of Labor and Delivery. 56. Prolonged Pregnancy / Jeffrey C. King. 57. Failure to Progress in Labor / Emanuel A. Friedman. 58. Cesarean Section: Modern Perspectives / Edward J. Quilligan. 59. Breech Delivery / Martin L. Gimovsky and Roy H. Petrie. 60. Aspiration Pneumonitis / J. Antonio Aldrete and Evelyn G. Santos. 61. Epidural Anesthesia / William C. Wright -- Pt. 8. Neonatal Considerations. 62. Assessing Maturity / Larry N. Cook. 63. Thermoregulation / K. N. Sivasubramanian. 64. Hypoxemia / Roger J. Harris.

65. Neonatal Hypocalcemia / Sergio Demarini and Reginald C. Tsang. 66. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation / Martin Keszler and K. N. Sivasubramanian.