UAB Synopsis, Vol. 25, No. 15, July 3, 2006
“Often called the diary of a pregnancy, the placenta provides insights into the causes of poor pregnancy and neonatal outcomes and predicts problems for future pregnancies,” says Ona M. Faye-Petersen, MD, associate professor of pathology and obstetrics and gynecology, and head of the microdissection laboratory, which serves as a regional referral center for fetal and placental pathology.
Dr. Faye-Petersen’s new book, Handbook of Placental Pathology, Second Edition, is designed to meet the needs of busy surgical pathologists, as well as those of placental pathologists, obstetricians, neonatologists, and trainees in these specialties. Coauthored by Vijay V. Joshi, MD, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, and Debra S. Heller, MD, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, the book explores the myriad diagnostic challenges pathologists and obstetricians face.
The new edition contains updated sections on many conditions and their pathogeneses and sequelae, including preeclampsia, maternal diabetes mellitus, and intrauterine infection, and lesions associated with cerebral palsy, such as fetal thrombotic vasculopathy and maternal floor infarction.
In addition, the book addresses the pathologic correlates of current clinical intrauterine interventional procedures and use of new technologies, such as molecular genetic probes to confirm pathologic diagnoses.
The text includes more than 260 new digitized illustrations of umbilical cord, membrane, and parenchymal and maternal surface abnormalities. The updated book also contains many original diagrams.
“The goal of this book is to provide scholarly, but concise and user-friendly information about placental pathology for clinicians and general pathologists,” Dr. Faye-Petersen says. “Correlative photographs are a key component of such an endeavor, and the majority of images are from cases I examined in the microdissection laboratory. Therefore, UAB has played an integral role in construction of this reference.”
Published by Taylor and Francis, the book is available in the UAB Bookstore as well as through Amazon and Barnes and Noble.