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Table of Contents:

List of principal contributors
Foreword
1 Hypoxic-ischemic damage to the brain in the human fetus 1
2 The biochemistry and pathophysiology of cerebral asphyxial encephalopathy 15
3 Quantification of fetal pO[subscript 2] changes by cerebral and umbilical Doppler during acute hypoxia in an ovine model 31
4 Fetal vascular response to acute hypoxia induced by malaria in humans 47
5 Fetal chronic hypoxia induced by long-term exposure to cocaine in an ovine model 59
6 Chronic fetal hypoxemia induced by repetitive fetal placental embolization 77
7 Does the brain-sparing effect compensate for hypoxemia? 89
8 Fetal heart rate, movement and blood flow velocity waveform patterns in relation to fetal hypoxemia 99
9 How can we assess the integrity of the fetal nervous system? 109
10 Fetal hemodynamics and brain damage related to prolonged and sustained hypoxia: case report 117
11 Correlations between outcome and hypoxic-ischemic events during fetal life 123
Index 141