Size at birth / [editors, Katherine Elliott, Julie Knight].

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Elliott, Katherine.

Knight, Julie.

Conference Name:

Symposium on Size at Birth (1974 : London, England)

Series:

Ciba Foundation symposium ; 27.

Ciba Foundation symposium ; 27 (new ser.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Birth size--Congresses.

Birth size.

Fetus--Growth--Congresses.

Fetus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (420 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier : Excerpta Medica : North-Holland, 1974.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.

Contents:

Size at Birth; Contents; Introduction; Pathology of the deprived fetus and its supply line; Discussion; The assessment and control of human fetal growth; Discussion; The infant of inappropriate size; Discussion; Immediate and long-term consequences of being large or small at birth: a comparative approach; Discussion; Differential organ growth in littermate rabbits; Discussion; Experimental growth retardation in rhesus monkeys; Discussion; Chromosomal and other genetic influences on birth weight variation; Discussion; The influence of the fetal hypothalamus and pituitary on growth

The role of the thyroid gland and kidneys in fetal growth Discussion of the two preceding papers; Birth weight of lambs: influences and consequences; Discussion; Assessment of metabolic control in diabetic pregnancy; Discussion; Physical methods of assessing size at birth; Discussion; Fetal malnutrition and brain development; Discussion; Total parenteral nutrition in infants of very low birth weight; Discussion; Maternal nutrition, birth weight and infant mortality; Discussion; Risk factors in human intrauterine growth retardation; General Discussion; The causes of small-for-dates births

Normal variation Chromosomal and other congenital anomalies; Infections; Poor uterus; Placenta and cord; Vascular disease in the mother; Drugs, medicaments and smoking; Other causes; Index of contributors; Subject index

Notes:

"Held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 12th-14th March 1974."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613693778

9781280783388

1280783389

9780470720097

0470720093

9780470717776

0470717777

OCLC:

797918312