Lippincot's Obstetrics Case-Based Review

Description

Lippincott’s Obstetrics Case-Based Review is based on real-life clinical scenarios, written in a manner that mimics “morning rounds”. This comprehensive text covers a wide range of medical, obstetrical, and fetal complications, making it your go-to source for studying for the obstetric written and oral boards.

Each chapter begins with a description of the patient at presentation and concludes with delivery of the infant. Questions concerning the management of the patient are present followed by detailed explanations to the answers.

Features

• Case Presentations to provide you with real-life scenarios
• Need-to-Know Clinical Pearls to highlight key take-aways
• More than 110 multiple Choice Questions to test your knowledge of the case throughout the text
• Clinical pearls that highlight "must know" facts from each chapter
• Focuses only on obstetrics
• Online question bank that store existing questions as well as new questions
• Written in "second person" because authors believe the self-identity will improve readability

Table of contents

• Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments

1. Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy / Marie H. Beall
2. Pulmonary Disease in Pregnancy / Marie H. Beall and Jeotsna Grover
3. Pyelonephritis in Pregnancy / David E. Abel
4. Preeclampsia / Rizwana Fareeduddin
5. Chronic Hypertension and Pregnancy / Lisa Vasquez and Marquis Jessie
6. HELLP Syndrome / Richard Burwick
7. Gestational Diabetes / Jeotsna Grover
8. Diabetes in Pregnancy / Dotun Ogunyemi
9. RBC Alloimmunization / Steven A. Laifer
10. Pelvic Mass in Pregnancy / Samuel S. Im
11. Venous Thromboembolism / Steven A. Laifer
12. Trauma in Pregnancy / Martin L. Gimovsky and Elena Bronshtein
13. Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Pregnancy / Neil Silverman
14. Thyroid Disease in Pregnancy / David E. Abel
15. HIV in Pregnancy / Lauren Ferrara, Men-Jean Lee, and Helene B. Bernstein
16. Acute Abdominal Pain in Pregnancy / Ramy Eskander
17. Ultrasound Diagnosis of a Congenital Anomaly / Aisling Murphy and Lawrence D. Platt
18. Fetal Chromosomal Anomaly / Marie H. Beall
19. Multiple Gestation / Julie Boles
20. Intrauterine Growth Restriction / Michael G. Ross
21. Macrosomia / Marquis Jessie
22. Oligohydramnios / Michael G. Ross and Marie H. Beall
23. Polyhydramnios / Marie H. Beall and Michael G. Ross
24. Teratogens in Pregnancy / Noelia Zork
25. Cervical Incompetence / Sarah Yamaguchi
26. Preterm Labor / Roy Z. Mansano
27. Uterine Anomalies / Tasmia Q. Henry
28. Premature Rupture of Membranes and Chorioamnionitis / Carol L. Archie
29. Breech Presentation / Tasmia Q. Henry
30. Placenta Accreta / Richard H. Lee and Jeotsna Grover
31. Placenta Previa / Racine N. Edwards-Silva
32. Placental Abruption / Matthew Kim
33. Postdated Pregnancy / Robert Eden
34. Abnormal Labor / Robert Eden
35. Shoulder Dystocia / Sherri Jackson and Siegfried Rotmensch
36. Postpartum Hemorrhage / Diana S. Wolfe
37. Uterine Rupture / John D. Richard
38. Amniotic Fluid Embolism / Robert Eden
39. Operative Delivery /John Richard
40. Breastfeeding /Jennifer Benedict

• Index

Authors

Marie Beall MD Vice Chair, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology Harbor – UCLA M
Michael G Ross MD Professor and Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Torrance, CA