title: The role of the medical consultant in pregnancy.
abstract: We are entering an era during which there will be a greater need for medical consultation in obstetric patients, a result of two major trends. The first is the improvement in medical management and surgical intervention which has enabled women with profound medical problems to live to a child-bearing age. The second trend is the delay in child-bearing by women born after 1950. Medical problems and complications increase in frequency with increasing maternal age. The unique features of medical consultations in pregnancy are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Division of Nephrology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Carlson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003253:Consultants; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004194:Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine; D011247:Pregnancy / Q000502:physiology; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D012380:Role