Brain Damage in the Preterm Infant (Clinics in Developmental Medicine) [Hardcover]

Nigel Paneth (Author), Raoul Rudelli (Author), Elias Kazam (Author), Willliam Monte (Author)

Book Description

Series: Clinics in Developmental Medicine | Publication Date: January 18, 1994

This Clinic in Developmental Medicine describes a meticulous survey of germinal matrix/intraventricular haemorrhage in preterm infants. The babies weighed 501-2000g at their birth in three New Jersey counties between 1984 and 1987. They were studied prospectively with cranial ultrasound; the findings were correlated with very detailed pathological examination of the brains of those who died, and with later outcome in the survivors. The numbers studied in this population-based sample were large enough both to test and to generate hypotheses about the causes and consequences of haemorrhage.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...provides real insight into the neuropathology and makes meaningful correlations with clinical and especially with ultrasonographic findings...the neuropathology is beautifully presented in a systematic and comprehensible form that even clinicians would appreciate, and is supplemented by excellent figures, many of which are in color...I would endorse this book and recommend it to pediatric neurologists and neuropathologists in particular, but it is written in such a manner that neonatologists, general pediatricians, and radiologists would also be able to appreciate it as an excellent review of the most frequent set of neurologic lesions in the preterm infant that is responsible for much chronic neurologic handicap and suffering in the survivors. Its modest price makes it practical to add to personal libraries and it is a monograph that will be used repeatedly for years." Harvey B. Sarnat, Neurology

"...a very good text...has several outstanding merits which will ensure that it will be a very well used addition to our library...provides a superb reference for discussion of the history of concepts of brain injury in premature children. It is thorough and accurate in this and places much of the work carried out over the last 40 years into context...the ultrsound and pathological photographs are wonderful, the descriptions and interpretation generally sound, and I am sure that, for this primary reason, I will use this book as a teaching aid for our trainees...an important study." Neil Marlow, Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

"...very richly referenced and beautifully illustrated...will be of great interest to clinicians and perinatal pathologists at the sharp end of research into perinatal neuropathology. It is an important source of new original material." Malcolm Leyone, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

"The book is an excellent treatise of neurobiology, and ultrasonographic and pathologic correlates in the preterm infant central nervous system. It is highly recommended." R. Natale, Annales CRMCC

"...can be understood by neonatologists, neurologists, developmental pediatricians and developmental psychologists." Zero to Three

Book Description

This Clinic in Developmental Medicine describes a meticulous survey of germinal matrix/intraventricular haemorrhage in preterm infants. The numbers studied in this population-based sample were large enough both to test and to generate hypotheses about the causes and consequences of haemorrhage.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Mac Keith Press; 1 edition (January 18, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 189868300X
• ISBN-13: 978-1898683001
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,878,292 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)