Book contents
- Fetal Therapy
- Fetal Therapy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Section 1: General Principles
- Chapter 1 The Rationale for Fetal Therapy
- Chapter 2 A Fetal Origin of Adult Disease
- Chapter 3 Human Embryology: Molecular Mechanisms of Embryonic Disease
- Chapter 4 Human Genetics and Fetal Disease: Assessment of the Fetal Genome
- Chapter 5 Interventions in Pregnancy to Reduce Risk of Stillbirth
- Chapter 6 Fetal Therapy Choices: Uncertain and Emotional Decisions and the Doctor’s Role in Parental Decision-Making
- Chapter 7 The Ethics of Consent for Fetal Therapy
- Chapter 8 Open Fetal Surgery: Is There Still a Role?
- Chapter 9 The Artificial Womb
- Section 2: Fetal Disease: Pathogenesis and Treatment
- Section III: The Future
- Index
- References
Chapter 9 - The Artificial Womb
from Section 1: - General Principles
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2019
- Fetal Therapy
- Fetal Therapy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Section 1: General Principles
- Chapter 1 The Rationale for Fetal Therapy
- Chapter 2 A Fetal Origin of Adult Disease
- Chapter 3 Human Embryology: Molecular Mechanisms of Embryonic Disease
- Chapter 4 Human Genetics and Fetal Disease: Assessment of the Fetal Genome
- Chapter 5 Interventions in Pregnancy to Reduce Risk of Stillbirth
- Chapter 6 Fetal Therapy Choices: Uncertain and Emotional Decisions and the Doctor’s Role in Parental Decision-Making
- Chapter 7 The Ethics of Consent for Fetal Therapy
- Chapter 8 Open Fetal Surgery: Is There Still a Role?
- Chapter 9 The Artificial Womb
- Section 2: Fetal Disease: Pathogenesis and Treatment
- Section III: The Future
- Index
- References
Summary
Despite advances in neonatal intensive care, prematurity remains an unsolved clinical challenge and a leading cause of infant morbidity and mortality [1]. Approximately 6% of all live births in the USA are considered extremely preterm (delivery at less than 28 weeks’ gestation), and the incidence of prematurity has slowly risen over the past decade [2]. Prematurity is thought to account for one-third of infant mortality [3], one-half of cerebral palsy, and 80% of survivors born at 22–28 weeks’ gestation will suffer at least one major co-morbidity [4].
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- Fetal TherapyScientific Basis and Critical Appraisal of Clinical Benefits, pp. 83 - 90Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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