Title	Principles of Medical Therapy in Pregnancy [electronic resource] / edited by Norbert Gleicher
Imprint	Boston, MA : Springer US, 1985
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2415-7
Descript	1320 p. 113 illus., 4 illus. in color. online resource

Prefaces of textbooks are generally meant to give editors an opportunity to express the rationale for the creation of yet another textbook. It is rare to find an author or editor who does not believe that his/her book fills a very specific need. This editor is no exception. With the incredible proliferation of medical textbooks in recent years, it has become difficult to find an empty niche for yet another text. Nevertheless, the editors and authors of Principles of Medical Therapy in Pregnancy have been impressed by one very clearly appreciated void: While the association of medical disorders with pregnancy is increasing in frequency as improved medical care allows more patients with medical diseases to conceive, an authoritative text covering the issue, comparable to an authoritative text in internal medicine, has been missing. With pregnancy representing a very specific disease situation-different from the nonpregnant state in diagnosis, management, and course of disease-a detailed textbook addressing all these issues for both the internist and the obstetrician seemed urgently needed

I. General Aspects of Medical Care during Pregnancy -- II. Hormonal Diseases -- III. Metabolic Diseases -- IV. Nutritional Requirements and Disturbances -- V. Diseases Caused by Chemical and Physical Agents -- VI. Infectious Diseases -- B. Infections Caused by Gram-Positive Cocci -- 50. Pneumococcal Infections -- 51. Staphylococcal Infections -- 52. Streptococcal Infections -- C. Infections Caused by Gram-Negative Cocci -- 53. Meningococcal Infections -- 54. Gonococcal Infections -- D. Aerobic Bacterial Infections -- 55. Gram-Negative Bacillary Infections during Pregnancy -- 56. Chancroid -- 57. Anthrax -- 58. Listeriosis -- 59. Diphtheria -- 60. Cholera -- 61. Campylobacter Infections -- 62. Bartonellosis -- 63. Granuloma Inguinale -- 64. Legionnairesโ{128}{153} Disease -- E. Anaerobic Bacterial Infections in Pregnancy -- 65. Diseases Caused by Anaerobic Bacteria -- F. Infections Caused by Mycobacteria, Ectoparasites, and Spirocheta -- 66. Mycobacterial Diseases -- 67. Scabies, Lice, and other Ectoparasites -- 68. Syphilis -- 69. Nonvenereal Treponematoses -- 70. Leptospirosis -- 71. Relapsing Fever -- G. Infections Caused by Higher Bacteria, Fungi, Rickettsia, Mycoplasma, and Chlamydia -- 72. Infections Caused by Fungi and Higher Bacteria -- 73. Rickettsial Diseases in Pregnancy -- 74. Respiratory Infection with Mycoplasma pneumoniae -- 75. Chlamydial Infections -- H. Viral Infections -- 76. Introduction to Viral Infections in Pregnancy -- 77. General Considerations of Viral Respiratory Diseases -- 78. Common Viral Respiratory Illnesses -- 79. Influenza -- 80. Measles -- 81. Rubella -- 82. Smallpox -- 83. Chickenpox and Herpes Zoster -- 84. Other Viral Exanthematous Diseases -- 85. Herpes Simplex Viruses -- 86. Cytomegalovirus Infections -- 87. Epstein-Barr Virus Infections Including Infectious Mononucleosis -- I. Central Nervous System Viruses -- 88. Approach to the Patient with Aseptic Meningitis or Encephalitis -- 89. Enteric Viruses -- 90. Mumps -- 91. Rabies -- 92. Arboviruses -- 93. Arenaviruses -- 94. Diseases Caused by Slow Viruses -- J. Miscellaneous and Presumptive Viral Infections -- 95. Warts and Molluscum Contagiosum -- 96. Cat Scratch Disease -- K. Protozoan and Helminthic Infections -- 97. Protozoan Infections in Pregnancy -- 98. Helminthic Infections in Pregnancy -- L. Infections of the Urinary Tract and Vagina -- 99. Urinary Tract Infections in Pregnancy -- 100. Vaginitis during Pregnancy -- VII. Cardiovascular Diseases -- VIII. Pulmonary Diseases -- IX. Hypertension -- X. Renal and Urinary Tract Diseases -- XI. Alimentary Tract -- XII. Hepatobiliary Tract and Pancreas -- XIII. Diseases of the Eye and Ear -- XIV. Psychiatric, Neurologic, and Striated Muscle Diseases -- XV. Immunologic Diseases -- XVI. Diseases of Joints and Bone -- XVII. Malignant Diseases -- XVIII. Surgical Diseases and Trauma -- XIX. The Skin -- XX. Hematologic Diseases -- XXI. Genetic Considerations and Fetal Disease