Features a companion website at www.expertconsult.com with fully searchable text and quarterly content updates to help
you keep up with rapid advances in the field.
Provides an updated and focused reference list to keep you up to date on the standards of care in maternal-fetal
medicine today.
Keeps you current with a new section: Disorders at the Maternal-Fetal Interface…and 6 new chapters: Biology of
Parturition, Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, Intrapartum Assessment of Fetal Health, Pathogenesis of Pre-
term Birth, Maternal and Fetal Infectious Disorders, and Benign Gynecological Conditions of Pregnancy.
Features over 50% new authorship with increased focus on international perspectives.
Includes the following hot topics in Maternal-Fetal Medicine: o Biology of Parturition o Fetal Growth o Prenatal
Genetic Screening and Diagnosis o Fetal Cardiac Malformations and Arrhythmias o Thyroid Disease and Pregnancy o
Management of Depression and Psychoses during Pregnancy and the Puerperium
Focuses on evidence based medicine, the current best practice in MFM for diagnosing and treating high risk
pregnancies.
Includes new illustrations and an updated, color design.