Medical Disorders During Pregnancy

Now in its third edition, this successful resource has been completely revised and updated. Consistently organisedthis text is easy-to-use, providing state-of-the-art knowledge to assist physicians who care for pregnant women, and women planning to become pregnant, with medical problems. Medical Disorders During Pregnancy contains a brief summary of the most commonimportant medical disorders; and discusses how pregnancy will affect the medical disorder of interest, and the impact of the medical disorder on mother and baby. Tables and charts give you rapid access to key diagnostic and management information. The appendix examines the impact of pregnancy on common lab tests helping you to prevent diagnostic and therapeutic errors that might be made assuming that the non-pregnant normal values apply to the pregnant patient. Extensive graphical material provides you with a better understanding of the interaction of pregnancy with medical disorders.