This exciting new reference brings you information about the most controversial hematology, immunology, and infectious disease challenges you face in your practice. The book confidently tackles these subjects and gives seasoned advice on the latest diagnostic and treatment strategies using evidence-based medicine wherever possible. It gives you the latest information you need to keep pace with the fast-paced, dynamic environment of neonatology.
- Addresses controversial topics head on, so you can decide how to handle these difficult practice issues.
- Serves as the bridge between the latest cutting-edge research and its application to clinical practice.
- Assembles a world-class group of neonatologists, representing the true leaders of the specialty, to ensure the most authoritative content available.
This exciting new reference brings you information about the most controversial hematology, immunology, and infectious disease challenges you face in your practice. The book confidently tackles these subjects and gives seasoned advice on the latest diagnostic and treatment strategies using evidence-based medicine wherever possible. It gives you the latest information you need to keep pace with the fast-paced, dynamic environment of neonatology.
- Addresses controversial topics head on, so you can decide how to handle these difficult practice issues.
- Serves as the bridge between the latest cutting-edge research and its application to clinical practice.
- Assembles a world-class group of neonatologists, representing the true leaders of the specialty, to ensure the most authoritative content available.
1. Stem Cell Facts for Neonatologist, Mervin Yoder 2. Current Issues in
the Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Treatment of Neonatal Thrombocytopenia,
Martha Sola- Visner, Matthew Saxonhouse 3. The role of recombinant leukocyte
colony-stimulating factors in the neonatal intensive care unit, Robert
Christensen 4. Why, When and How should we provide red blood cell
transfusions to neonates? Robin Ohls 5. Controversies in Neonatal Thrombotic
Disorders, Marilyn Manco-Johnson 6. Practical approaches to the neutropenic
neonate, Akhil Maheshwari 7. What evidence supports dietary intervention to
prevent infant allergy and food allergy development? David Osborne, John Sinn
8. Toll Like Receptor Responses in Neonatal Dendritic Cells, Fabienne
Willems, Stanlis Goriely, Ezra Aksoy 9. Maternally-mediated Neonatal
Autoimmunity, Anne Stevens, Neelufar Mozaffarian 10. What insights into
human cord blood lymphocyte function can be gleaned from studying newborn
mice? Cheri Landers, Subbarao Bondada 11. Influence of Passive Antibodies on
the Immune Response of Young Infants, WP Glezen 12. Neonatal T-Cell Immunity
and its Regulation by Innate Immunity an Dendritic Cells? David Lewis
13. Breast milk infection, Marianne Forsgren, Lars Naver, Bjorn Fischler
14. Control of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in the Neonatal Intensive Care
Unit, Philip Toltzis 15. Neonatal Fungal Infections, Charles Sims, Luis
Ostrosky-Zeichner 16. Has intrapartum prophylaxis for GBBS sepsis changed
the spectrum of organisms causing neonatal sepsis? Gary Overturf
