Small for Gestational Age Fetuses, Small Neonates – Current Knowledge and Perspectives
A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (12 June 2023) | Viewed by 1785
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fetal growth restriction; maternal and fetal Doppler; hypertensive disorders in pregnancy; fetal biometry and wellbeing; fetal anomaly screening T1 & T2; aneuploidies; fetal structural anomalies
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The prenatal period has significant impacts on an individual's development, health, and well-being from infancy to adulthood. In utero nutrition and environmental features are most probably related to conditions in adult life.
This Special Issue of Medicina aims to explore the current knowledge and perspectives about the diagnosis, management, and evolution of small-for-gestational-age fetuses and small neonates. If developing early in pregnancy, the condition may be associated with hypertensive disorders, aneuploidies, and fetal structural anomalies. The late occurrence implies a higher risk of stillbirth and requires highly specialized medicine for reaching the diagnosis.
This Special Issue allows maternal–fetal specialists and neonatologists to publicize the results of their research, with an emphasis on prenatal care in fetuses who do not achieve the expected in utero growth potential, also highlighting the continuum with the postnatal life. Despite the better understanding of pathophysiology and developing various management strategies in many pathological conditions over the last few decades, many questions remain unsolved in this fascinating field.
This Special Issue collects papers reflecting further progress in this research area in the form of original research manuscripts, articles, clinical/narrative/systematic reviews, and case reports.
Prof. Dr. Ştefania Tudorache
Dr. Mihaela Gheonea
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- intrauterine growth restriction
- small-for-gestational-age fetus
- prenatal diagnosis
- ultrasound
- obstetrics
- reproductive medicine
- hypertensive disorders
- near viability newborn
- ethics
- medical education
- research design
- epidemiology and statistics