Biochemistry testing associated with pregnancy and the newborn period

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
1970768	Clinical Biochemistry	2006	23 Pages	PDF

Abstract

Everyone has been a newborn, and everyone's mother has been pregnant. Despite the commonality of these events, medical care and the clinical chemistry laboratory's role in it have changed remarkably over the last 50 years. This review is a historical overview of clinical chemistry testing that is related to pregnancy and the newborn period.

Keywords

Pregnancy fetal lung maturity Hemolytic disease of the newborn Gestational diabetes Preterm labor Neonatal sepsis Neonatal screening Newborn neonatal HCG, Human chorionic gonadotropin Preeclampsia

Related Topics

Life Sciences Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Biochemistry

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Biochemistry testing associated with pregnancy and the newborn period—A lot has changed since you were a baby!

Authors

Laurel S. Thorlacius, George Blakney, John Krahn, Fiona Bamforth, Trefor N. Higgins,