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Table of Contents:

Preface
Contributors
1 Antecedents of Long-Term Handicap 1
2 Fetal Asphyxia and Outcome 21
3 Fetal Adaptive Responses to Hypoxia: Physiological Basis for Fetal Monitoring 37
4 The Molecular Mechanisms of Fetal Brain Injury: The Role of Oxygen Free Radicals 53
5 Perinatal Asphyxia and Placental Pathology 79
6 Excitotoxicity and Patterns of Brain Injury from Fetal or Perinatal Asphyxia 113
7 Management Strategies for Perinatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy 127
8 Postnatal Neuroimaging to Time Hypoxic-Ischemic Cerebral Injury 141
9 How to Time When Hypoxic-Ischemic Fetal Brain Damage Took Place 153
10 Hematologic Markers to Date Fetal Neurologic Injury 159
11 Intraventricular Hemorrhage in the Premature Infant 171
12 Fetal Neurosonography 183
13 The Brain-Damaged Baby: Fetal Heart Rate Lessons from the Data Bank 227
14 Computerized Approaches to Fetal Surveillance 241
15 Computerized Analysis of Fetal Heart Rate for Recognizing Antepartum Fetal Compromise 255
16 Fetal Biophysical Variables and Fetal Status 279
17 Comparative Evaluation of Doppler Waveform in Arteries and Veins Evaluated with Nonstress Test, Contraction Stress Test, and Cord Blood Sampling in Growth-Retarded or Hydropic Fetuses 321
18 Monitoring the Growth-Retarded Fetus 333
19 Emerging Technologies: Fetal Optical Monitoring 345
Index 365