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P Camosy

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Patient support networks: something for everyone.

With the emphasis of American health care shifting toward patient rights and education, the resources available through patient support networks are a valuable supplement to physician services. Support networks are groups organized around specific conditions or disorders, their diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. As with other forms of patient education, support networks enable patients to become more informed about their disease and to play a more active role in their health care. Following a summary of patient-physician-support network relationships and the benefits thereof, a list of patient support resources is provided.

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Fetal medicine: treating the unborn patient.

Fetal medicine is a rapidly growing discipline that combines the expertise of many specialties, including obstetrics, neonatology and pediatric surgery. The field is unique in that the physician rarely touches or sees the unborn patient directly. Thus, recent advances in ultrasonographic imaging (real-time and increased-resolution imaging) have played a pivotal role in the development of fetal diagnosis and therapy. Fetal access must take into account the safety of the mother and includes intra-amniotic, intracordal and fetal intramuscular routes. Medical treatment of the fetus includes exchange transfusion, thyroid hormone replacement and administration of steroids for surfactant induction. Correction of obstructive uropathy with urinary diversion has proved successful in decreasing fetal morbidity and mortality, while other procedures are still in the experimental stage. Extrauterine fetal surgery is performed only rarely but represents an exciting new direction in the treatment of medicine's youngest patients.

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