Hematology, Immunology and Infectious Disease: Neonatology Questions and Controversies

by Robin K Ohls MD (Editor), Akhil Maheshwari MD (Editor)

Overview

Dr. Richard Polin’s Neonatology Questions and Controversies series highlights the most challenging aspects of neonatal care, offering trustworthy guidance on up-to-date diagnostic and treatment options in the field. In each volume, renowned experts address the clinical problems of greatest concern to today’s practitioners, helping you handle difficult practice issues and provide optimal, evidence-based care to every patient.

• Stay fully up to date in this fast-changing field with Hematology, Immunology and Genetics, 3rd Edition.
• The most current clinical information, including new coverage of exome sequencing, properties of donor milk, necrotizing enterocolitis and nutrition, thrombocytopenia in neonates with necrotizing enterocolitis, early diagnosis of severe combined immunodeficiency, and newborn screening.
• New content on the genetic basis for neonatal disorders, new strategies for genetic diagnosis (such as whole exome sequencing and microarrays), antenatal genetic testing, and ethical dilemmas and genetic counselling.
• Current coverage of using new complete blood count (CBC) parameters to help guide neonatal care, neonatal neuroprotection, and differentiating hemolytic from non-hemolytic neonatal jaundice.
• Consistent chapter organization to help you find information quickly and easily.
• The most authoritative advice available from world-class neonatologists who share their knowledge of new trends and developments in neonatal care.
• Expert Consult™ eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Purchase each volume individually, or get the entire 7-volume set, which includes online access that allows you to search across all titles!Gastroenterology and NutritionHematology, Immunology and GeneticsHemodynamics and CardiologyInfectious Disease and Pharmacology New Volume!Nephrology and Fluid/Electrolyte PhysiologyNeurologyThe Newborn Lung

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323568470
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	07/14/2018
Series:	Neonatology: Questions & Controversies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	345
File size:	34 MB
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Table of Contents

Ohls: Hematology, Immunology&Genetics: Neonatology Questions and Controversies

1. Stem cell therapy in neonates-the time has (almost) come

2. Genome and Exome Sequencing: Can it impact clinical care in the NICU

3. Transfusion thresholds in the NICU-what have recent RCTs taught us

4. DONOR MILK COMPARED WITH MOTHER'S OWN MILK

5. Will standardized approaches to nutrition decrease NEC

6. What is the value of identifying genetic causes of congenital hemolytic jaundice

7. Using the New CBC Parameters in NICU Practice

8. How near are we to using darbepoetin or erythropoietin as neuroprotective agents for perinatal hypoxic/ischemic encephalopathy

9. Of what value to neonates is measuring end tidal carbon monoxide concentration

10. How do we adopt anemia-preventing strategies in our delivery rooms

11. Thrombocytopenia in Infants with Necrotizing Enterocolitis

12. Genetic Risk Factors for Patent Ductus Arteriosus

13. Genetic basis of PDA.

14. GENETIC BASIS OF BRONCHOPULMONARY DYSPLASIA

15. Prenatal genetic testing.

16. Early diagnosis of severe combined immunodeficiency.

17. Newborn Screening

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Jay P. Goldsmith, MD (Tulane University School of Medicine)
Description: This book, another in the Neonatology Questions and Controversies Series, highlights infectious and hematologic diseases and pathophysiology with a collection of 16 distinct contributions on various aspects of the physiology and cellular aspects of immune response and modulation, developmental physiology of the hematopoietic system, and controversies regarding various therapies, including treatment of thrombocytopenia, transfusion therapy, and the approach to the neutropenic neonate.
Purpose: At first glance, the collection of topics seems to lack a common theme. However, according to the editors, the topics all "contribute to provide a glimpse of how the neonate must utilize cells of the hematologic and immune systems to thwart the onslaught of microbial challenges." This is a worthy objective since infection plays such an important role in the treatment of the neonate. The editors have for the most part met their goal, although the book is heavily weighted toward developmental biology and pathophysiology, rather than application of the science to clinical practice.
Audience: Neonatologists, pediatric hematologists, and infectious disease physicians are the intended audience. The book is written at a level that would appeal to scientists and advanced practice students such as fellows in these fields. The editors are internationally recognized in their respective fields and the contributors are a diverse group of physicians and scientists from institutions worldwide.
Features: The contributions review areas of recent research and controversy in neonatal hematology, infectious disease, and immunology. The topics as well as the contributors are diverse, with most of the emphasis on the developmental biology of the immune and hematopoietic systems. Clinical topics include issues and controversies in thrombocytopenia, red cell transfusions, thrombotic disorders, breast milk and viral infections and fungal infections. As a clinician, I was impressed with the currency of the references, and I especially enjoyed Dr. Ohls' chapter on why, when, and how to transfuse neonates. The book has limited illustrations.
Assessment: Like many in this series, this volume is not a complete book on any of the topics in the title. The editors have selected a group of controversial and important topics in these fields and have chosen contributors who have written up-to-date summaries of the current knowledge. For these topics, there are few sources of such outstanding reviews. However, readers may need to go to standard textbooks for general clinical information in these areas.

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