Maternal-Fetal Toxicology: A Clinician's Guide

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Gideon Koren
Taylor & Francis, 30 mag 2001 - 888 pagine
This totally revised and expanded reference presents a problem-based approach to the teratogenic risks of exposure to drugs, chemicals, viruses, and radiation during pregnancy-containing updated material on treatment programs and management approaches, as well as systematic reviews and meta-analyses of specific xenobiotics.
Offers entirely new features such as clinical case studies at the beginning of most chapters, as well as end-of-chapter solutions!
Summarizing recentlarge-scale prospective studies on the safety of drugs in pregnancy, initiated by the Motherisk Program in Toronto in collaboration with several American services, the Third Edition of Maternal-Fetal Toxicology provides
  • the latest analysis on alcohol consumption during pregnancy and the diagnosis of fetal alcohol syndrome
  • a guide for herbal products in pregnancy
  • timely information for the evaluation of fetal safety in chemical industries
  • up-to-the-minute treatment for epilepsy and other chronic conditions in pregnancy
  • current management of the neonatal abstinence syndrome
  • modern uses of herbal medicine in pregnancy and during lactation
  • and more!
    Written by a multidisciplinary team of experts in the field, Maternal-Fetal Toxicology, Third Edition, is a practical and well-researched reference for all obstetricians/gynecologists, toxicologists, family physicians, pharmacologists, pediatricians, nurses, pharmacists, poison control specialists, geneticists, and upper-level undergraduate, graduate, and medical school students in these disciplines.
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