Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Recognition, Differential Diagnosis and Long-Term Effects

Buch | Softcover

97 Seiten

2018
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-5361-4602-8 (ISBN)

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Alcohol has long been a well renowned and leading teratogen that inflicts a myriad of adverse effects on the offspring exposed during pregnancy in alcoholic mothers, ranging from mild to severe malformed features. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Recognition, Differential Diagnosis and Long-Term Effects opens with a presentation on the diagnostic criteria for identifying and distinguishing these various alcohol-related disorders and their respective characteristic features. There are considerable problems in diagnosing foetal alcohol spectrum disorders and evidence of more than minimal exposure to ethanol during pregnancy is an important criterion. Information on the mothers alcohol consumption during pregnancy may not be available or may be inaccurate. Furthermore, approximately half of children affected by may not exhibit signs until they are preschool or school-age. Thus, the authors assess emerging enduring markers of prenatal alcohol exposure. The following chapter summarizes data from investigations of the effects of alcohol on neuron-microglia interactions based on recent findings which demonstrate that alcohol causes loss of both neurons and microglia in the developing brain. Structural and functional characteristics of neuron-microglia interactions are presented, as well as the effects of alcohol on various cytokines which play roles in the mechanisms of those interactions. The various long-term effects of drinking during pregnancy on the immune and the neuroimmune systems of the developing fetus, baby and child are also discussed. The results suggest that fetal alcohol exposure induces long-term defects in the immunity and susceptibility to various infections.

Ottawa military historian Doug Knight is a retired Canadian Army officer. His engineering experience provides a solid background for his research into the history of Canadian military equipment and fortifications.

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Erscheinungsdatum	02.02.2019
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	172 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pädiatrie
ISBN-10	1-5361-4602-1 / 1536146021
ISBN-13	978-1-5361-4602-8 / 9781536146028
Zustand	Neuware