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This book offers practical guidance to women who are suddenly confronted with medical diagnoses that place them in a high-risk category or indicate abnormalities in their developing babies. The author draws on her own personal experience to provide useful information about a wide range of medical conditions in a way that takes account of the emotional and psychological impact. The sections devoted to the diagnosis of high-risk pregnancy and foetal anomalies include a range of first-person accounts of these experiences. In sections on pregnancy and labour and on the death of a child, the author provides a wealth of advice for dealing with the practical, ethical and emotional issues that can arise in the different stages of these experiences of pregnancy. The author refers to recent scientific findings in this field and provides a comprehensive glossary of medical terms, as well as a further reading section for both adults and children within families affected by these medical conditions.The book has a strong practical focus throughout and the author provides a list of recipes to accompany the dietary advice and suggestions of specific exercises to promote health during this journey. She also supplies comprehensive lists of support organisations throughout the world that specialise in helping people to deal with the requirements of specific medical conditions. ... Read more

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In touch with the emotions and difficult choices
High-Risk Pregnancy and Foetal Diagnosis: Your Journey by professional family therapy, grief, and women's health counselor Stephanie Azri is a practical guide written especially for women who must cope with medical diagnoses that put them in a high-risk category, or indicate abnormalities in their unborn. High-Risk Pregnancy and Foetal Diagnosis outlines in plain terms the choices expectant mothers and fathers have with regard to screening tests and their risks, cases where the unborn is diagnosed with a potentially fatal disorder, labor and delivery versus means of terminating high-risk pregnancies or pregnancies with a severe malformation, the options for placing a child with Down's syndrome or other severe but nonlethal genetic flaws if the family feels unable to give proper care, and much more. Individual personal written testimonies put the reader in touch with the emotions and difficult choices that others who may have been in the same position have had to make. ... Read more

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This guide outlines the nature of the difficulties underlying AS, explains how they may give rise to problems in school and provides practical management suggestions. With a major focus on "making sense" of the difficulties encountered by persons with AS, common behaviors are discussed under the categories of "making sense of it" and "things to try", making for a very practical approach. ... Read more

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Asperger Syndrome - Practical Strategies for the Classroom: A Teacher's Guide
We have bought this simple, practical, straight-forward guide for each of our son's teachers (kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade). Each teacher has thanked us repeatedly, as the book is so easy to use as a reference tool. You simply look up the unusual behavior, read the brief text explaining why the child with Asperger syndrome does this, and read the practical solutions and strategies for dealing with the specific behavior.There is no fluff, only useful, immediately applicable information. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Syndrome Myasthénique de Lambert-Eaton, Hippocratisme Digital, Syndrome de Stauffer, Syndrome de Dodge-Potter. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Un syndrome paranéoplasique est l'ensemble des anomalies pouvant accompagner certains cancers. Ces anomalies ne sont pas en relation directe avec la tumeur, mais sont des manifestations systémiques survenant à distance de l'endroit où se développe le cancer, par production d'une substance par la tumeur. Il s'agit de syndromes rares, surtout retrouvés dans une minorité des cancers intrathoraciques et digestifs. Le syndrome paranéoplasique accompagne parfois la tumeur dans son évolution : il la précède souvent, il régresse parfois avec son traitement, surtout pour certains syndromes neurologiques paranéoplasiques, disparaît avec sa guérison et réapparaît en cas de rechute. Son traitement est donc symptomatique de celui du cancer qui en est responsable. Il se manifeste par des troubles neurologiques, endocriniens, hématologiques, dermatologiques, osseux ou articulaires. Ils correspondent à la sécrétion ectopique et inappropriée d'une hormone ou d'une substance proche d'une hormone par du tissu cancéreux non endocrinien. Le syndrome de Zollinger-Ellison est un syndrome caractérisé par des ulcères digestifs graves, souvent multiples, résistant aux traitements usuels, avec hypersécrétion et hyperacidité importante de la muqueuse gastrique. Ces ulcères sont secondaires, provoqués par des tumeurs de cellules du pancréas produisant en abondance de la gastrine qui stimule la sécrétion gastrique acide maximale. Le syndrome de Schwartz-Bartter se rencontre essentiellement dans les cancers bronchiques à petites cellules et consiste en une sécrétion inappropriée d'hor...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Potter Sequence, Polycystic Kidney Disease, Dent's Disease, Meckel Syndrome, Nephronophthisis, Epispadias, Horseshoe Kidney, Bladder Exstrophy, Ectopic Ureter, Renal Agenesis, Urachal Cyst, Multicystic Dysplastic Kidney, Megaureter, Papillorenal Syndrome, Medullary Sponge Kidney, Renal Ectopia. Excerpt:Bladder exstrophy Bladder exstrophy , more properly, the exstrophy-epispadias complex is a congenital anomality in which part of the bladder is present outside the body. It is rare, occurring once every 40,000-50,000 live births with a 2:1 male:female ratio. The diagnosis involves a spectrum of anomalies of the lower abdominal wall, bladder, anterior bony pelvis, and external genitalia. It occurs due to failure of the abdominal wall to close during fetal development and results in protrusion of the posterior bladder wall through the lower abdominal wall. Treatment is with surgical correction of the defect, but patients can still have long term issues with urinary tract infections and sexual dysfunction. Pathogenesis The cause of bladder exstrophy is maldevelopment of the lower abdominal wall, leading to a rupture which causes the bladder to communicate with the amniotic fluid. Spectrum of anomalies The typical manifestation of exstrophy-epispadias complex is The spectrum of disease extends from spade penis and epispadias on one hand, to exstrophy with cloaca (also known as cloacal exstrophy ). Treatment Modern therapy is aimed at surgical reconstruction of the bladder and genitalia. Prognosis Even with successful surgery, patients may have long-term problems with References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Dent's disease Dent's disease (or Dent disease ) is a rare X-linked recessive inherited condition that affects the kidney . It ... ... Read more

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Why is it that so many women have everything going for them-except satisfying personal relationships? In this breakthrough book, two clinical psychologists reveal the surprising answers. Writing from a much-needed male point of view, the authors tell why smart women are almost magnetically drawn to the wrong men, and how they can change their love-defeating attitudes to open up new opportunities for romantic happiness. ... Read more