Handbook of Clinical Laboratory Testing during Pregnancy

Foreword
1 Human pregnancy : an overview 1
2 Human chorionic gonadotropin 15
3 Biological markers of preterm delivery 35
4 Markers of fetal lung maturity 55
5 Maternal prenatal screening for fetal defects 71
6 Chromosome analysis in prenatal diagnosis 139
7 Diagnosis and monitoring of ectopic and abnormal pregnancies 159
8 Thyroid disease during pregnancy : assessment of the mother 167
9 Thyroid disease during pregnancy : assessment of the fetus 181
10 Hematology and hemostasis during pregnancy 195
11 Hemolytic disease of the newborn 219
12 Prenatal screening and diagnosis of congenital infections 245
13 Laboratory testing for group B streptococcus in the pregnant patient 291
14 Immunologic diseases of pregnancy 301
15 Recurrent pregnancy loss 327
16 Multifetal gestations 351
17 Diabetes in pregnancy 359
18 Preeclampsia, eclampsia, and hypertension 391
19 Liver diseases in pregnancy 401