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Imaging in Neonates

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This book provides a concise overview of neonatal imaging. After a short clinical introduction on the crucial role of imaging in diagnosing and treating neonatal conditions, it discusses the various methods (ultrasound, digital radiography, fluoroscopy, CT, and MRI) available and explains in detail how they have to be adapted for neonatal applications. Chapters feature imaging findings and differential diagnoses for the most common neonatal conditions. Additionally, some relevant aspects of foetal imaging are presented.

Written by an interdisciplinary team, Imaging in Neonates is a practical resource for daily use in the ward for all medical professionals involved in treating neonates.

Preface

Neonates are something special—everybody realises as soon as one can hold a baby in his/her arms. They deserve special care and our attention for their well-being as they cannot articulate their feelings and needs and rely on us— which also applies to health care and medical imaging. We also depend on them, as they are the base of mankind’s future. All this should be strong motivation to engage in enabling dedicated care and imaging of this special, very vulnerable patient group with quite different conditions, needs and restrictions than older children or adults—which I learned already when specialising in paediatrics in the early years of my professional career. Before becoming a (paediatric) radiologist I was a paediatrician, very much involved with neonatology and neonatal intensive care; I also was a member of the paediatric ECMO team. As such I have been searching for information on how to properly image neonates, particularly those who were critically ill, and learn about imaging options as well as restrictions.

After becoming a paediatric radiologist, I have often been asked by my clinical colleagues about imaging in neonates and where they can find information. I could suggest various book chapters or booklets on one or another subtopic but could not find a book that would give a comprehensive overview on this subspecialised topic in paediatric imaging. So, I approached various publishing companies, and eventually Springer agreed to enable this project, for which I am very grateful. This effort may provide extra value, as increasingly neonatologists are performing and reading studies themselves—similar to the situation 30–40 years ago when I as the neonatologist had to read the films, perform fluoroscopy and do the ultrasound, as no specialised (paediatric) radiologist was available; this at that time additionally motivated me to eventually become a paediatric radiologist. Today, there is also a decreased interest of young radiologists in doing these basic studies—they often prefer to read the fancy MRIs or CTs but are more reluctant to perform basic ultrasound (US) studies or fluoroscopy particularly in these tiny babies, where these studies can be time consuming and cumbersome. They also claim that there is no proper textbook where one could learn about these conditions, and in fact, there are few who have focused on imaging of neonates with all the respective implications—another additional motivation to take on this task and write/edit such a book.

Times are changing, not only has insight into some of the typical neonatal conditions grown, but also terminology and management have changed, such as new and different respiratory therapies, ECMO has decreased, and new drugs are on the market (although many are not registered for paediatric or neonatal use, but indispensable for treating some of those very ill babies, for example, with pulmonary hypertension or oncologic and cardiac conditions, or infections with resistant bacteria or fungus). New laboratory tests and markers have been introduced and developed, but the restrictions in taking blood samples in these increasingly small and vulnerable preterm infants for repeated laboratory testing for diagnosis and follow-up (that can lead to iatrogenic anaemia) makes imaging even more important for these patients’ care.

Finally, having seven grandchildren, I personally experienced the need for good imaging in certain neonatal situations and queries, particularly the need for imaging suggestions and algorithms—to avoid diagnostic overkill (which may also lead to overtreatment) but without missing important conditions with short-term and long-term sequalae. Thus, I want to dedicate this book to my grandchildren and children. I want to thank Springer for enabling this book, and my wife Barbara for her patience while preparing the book. And of course, I need to thank also all my authors and co-authors. I also want to acknowledge the support from many colleagues both in my institution and abroad by providing images, giving hints and comments on how to improve, or by editing several sections for language and content. Finally, I would like to thank everybody for their special efforts making this book possible in these crazy times with COVID and all the respective workload and illness implications—all this and all their input eventually made the book possible.

I hope you will enjoy reading this book, find the information you need, and will find the book useful to optimise imaging in these little patients entrusted to you.

• Title: Imaging in Neonates
  
• Author(s): Michael Riccabona
  
• Publisher: Springer
  
• Year: 2023
  
• Edition: – Edition
  
• Language: English
  
• Pages: 480
  
• Ebook:  PDF
  
• File size: 43 MB
  
• ISBN Number: 3031157281, 9783031157288
  
• CBID: CBM398
  

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