DC Dutta’s Textbook of Obstetrics

Description

This book has been in service to the medical fraternity for the last 35 years. It has evolved to provide updated information in a concise and easy-to-read format. All the chapters are thoroughly revised and updated. Every chapter of this comprehensive text is easy to navigate and read with its standardized headings, subheadings, tables, boxes, flowcharts and key points. This is an excellent textbook superbly written. It should be in each and every library and in the possession of all the medical students, midwives and practicing clinicians.

Key Features

• Author’s original style and innovative approach have been maintained.
• The language throughout the text is crisp, lucid and unambiguous.
• Information is consistent and uniform across all the chapters.
• Enriched with numerous colored boxes, tables, flowcharts, illustrations, line drawings, MR images, ultrasonograms, skiagrams and key points for quick revision and fast learning.
• Relevant medical advances up to the time of publication have been incorporated.
• Focuses on evidence-based knowledge. Core knowledge (must-know area) has been highlighted.
• Standardized headings with different styles for quick pick-up, comfortable reading, and easy reproduction.
• Guidelines and recommendations of professional and academic organizations have been highlighted.

Table of Contents

1. Anatomy of Female Reproductive Organs
2. Fundamentals of Reproduction
3. Placenta and Fetal Membranes
4. The Fetus
5. Physiological Changes during Pregnancy
6. Endocrinology in Relation to Reproduction
7. Diagnosis of Pregnancy
8. The Fetus-in-Utero
9. Fetal Skull and Maternal Pelvis
10. Antenatal Care, Pre-conceptional Counseling and Care
11. Antenatal Assessment of Fetal Wellbeing
12. Prenatal Genetic Counseling, Screening and Diagnosis
13. Normal Labor
14. Normal Puerperium
15. Vomiting in Pregnancy
16. Hemorrhage in Early Pregnancy
17. Multiple Pregnancy, Amniotic Fluid Disorders, Abnormalities of Placenta and Cord
18. Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy
19. Antepartum Hemorrhage
20. Medical and Surgical Illnesses Complicating Pregnancy
21. Gynecological Disorders in Pregnancy
22. Preterm Labor and Birth, Preterm Rupture of the Membranes, Postmaturity, Intrauterine Fetal Death
23. Complicated Pregnancy
24. Contracted Pelvis
25. Abnormal Uterine Action
26. Complicated Labor: Malposition, Malpresentation and Cord Prolapse
27. Prolonged Labor, Obstructed Labor, Dystocia Caused by Fetal Anomalies
28. Complications of the Third Stage of Labor
29. Injuries to the Birth Canal
30. Abnormalities of the Puerperium
31. The Term Newborn Infant
32. Low Birth Weight Baby
33. Diseases of the Fetus and the Newborn
34. Pharmacotherapeutics in Obstetrics
35. Induction of Labor
36. Population Dynamics and Control of Conception
37. Operative Obstetrics
38. Safe Motherhood, Epidemiology of Obstetrics
39. Special Topics in Obstetrics
40. Current Topics in Obstetrics
41. Imaging in Obstetrics (USG, MRI, CT, Radiology), Amniocentesis and Guides to Clinical Tests
42. Practical Obstetrics
43. Index

Author Biography

Hiralal Konar MBBS MD DNB MNAMS FACS FRCOG

Chairman, Indian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Calcutta National Medical College and C.R. Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India