Neonatal Nutrition and Metabolism

Review of the hardback: 'This is now the standard text on neonatal nutrition. No general text devotes this much time and space to this critical aspect of neonatal care.' Doody's Book Review Service

• 1. Fetal nutrition Frank Bloomfield and Jane Harding; 2. Determinants of intrauterine growth John W. Sparks and Irene Cetin; 3. Aspects of fetoplacental nutrition in intrauterine growth restriction and macrosomia Tim R. H. Regnault, Sean W. Limesand and William W. Hay Jr.; 4. Postanatal growth in preterm infants Richard J. Cooke; 5. Thermal regulation and effects on nutrient substrate metabolism J. M. Hawdon; 6. Development and physiology of the gastrointestinal tract Carol Lynn Berseth; 7. Metabolic programming as a consequence of the nutritional environment during fetal and the immediate postnatal periods Mulchand S. Patel; 8. Nutrient regulation in brain development: glucose and alternate fuels Camille Fung, Sherin U. Devaskar; 9. Water and electrolyte balance in newborn infants Shanthy Sridhar and Stephen Baumgart; 10. Amino acid metabolism and protein accretion Johannes B. van Goudoever; 11. Carbohydrate metabolism and glycogen accretion Rebecca A. Simmons; 12. Energy requirements and protein-energy metabolism and balance in preterm and term infants Sudah Kashyap and Karl F. Schulze; 13. The role of essential fatty acids in development William C. Heird; 14. Vitamins Frank R. Greer; 15. Normal bone and mineral physiology and Metabolism Reginald C. Tsang and Oussama Itani; 16. Disorders of mineral, vitamin D and bone homeostasis Reginald C. Tsang and Oussama Itani; 17. Trace minerals K. Michael Hambidge; 18. Iron Michael K. Georgieff; 19. Conditionally essential nutrients: choline, inositol, taurine, arginine, glutamine and nucleotides Jane Carver; 20. Intravenous feeding William C. Heird; 21. Enteral amino acid and protein digestion, absorption and metabolism David K. Rassin and Karen E. Shattuck; 22. Enteral carbohydrate assimilation C. Lawrence Kien; 23. Enteral lipid digestion and absorption Margit Hamosh; 24. Minimal enteral nutrition Josef Neu and Hilton Bernstein; 25. Milk secretion and composition Margaret C. Neville and James L. McManaman; 26. Rationale for breastfeeding Richard J. Schanler; 27. Fortified human milk for premature infants Richard J. Schanler; 28. Formulas for preterm and term infants Deborah L. O'Connor; 29. Differences between metabolism and feeding of preterm and term infants Scott C. Denne and Brenda Poindexter; 30. Gastrointestinal reflux Sudarshan Rao Jadcherla; 31. Hypo- and hyperglycemia and other carbohydrate metabolism disorders Jane E. McGowan; 32. The infant of the diabetic mother Richard M. Cowett; 33. Neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis: clinical observations and pathophysiology Michael Caplan and Tamas Jilling; 34. Neonatal short bowel syndrome Judith Sondheimer; 35. Acute respiratory failure John E. E. Van Aerde and Michael Narvey; 36. Nutrition for premature infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia Stephanie A. Atkinson; 37. Nutrition in infants with congenital heart disease James S. Barry, Rachelle Harwood and Patti J. Thureen; 38. Nutrition therapies for inborn errors of metabolism Anne Tsai, Janet Thomas and Laurie Bernstein; 39. Nutrition in the neonatal surgical patient Agostino Pierro; 40. Nutritional assessment of the neonate Robert Erick Ridout and Michael K. Georgieff; 41. Methods of measuring body composition Kenneth J. Ellis; 42. Methods of measuring energy balance: calorimetry and doubly labelled water Pietr Sauer; 43. Methods of measuring nutrient substrate utilization using stable isotopes Agneta Sunehag and Morey Haymond; 44. Postnatal nutritional influences on subsequent health Josef Neu; 45. Growth outcomes of preterm and very low birth weight infants Maureen Hack; 46. Post-hospital nutrition of the preterm infant Diane M. Anderson and Richard J. Schanler.