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Zusatztext ...there is almost no superfluous information and all the text is directed to helping the healthcare professional deal with a patient in front of them. It is very much direct! straight to the point and most importantly! practical... It's an excellent and practical book! particularlu for primary health care teams as well as a GP registrar. Informationen zum Autor Enda McVeigh is Senior Fellow in Reproductive Medicine at the University of Oxford, Consultant Gynaecologist at theJohn Radcliffe Hospital, and Medical Director at the Oxford IVF Unit; John Guillebaud is Emeritus Professor of Family Planning and Reproductive Health, University College London. He was born at Buye, Burundi, brought up in Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya, and continues to make regular training and support visits for healthcare professions in Africa (Central and South). He is Ex-Medical Director, at Margaret Pyke Centre for Study and Training in Family Planning. He is currently Research Director at the Elliot-Smith Clinic, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, where in addition to having performed c 5000 vasectomies he is involved in studies of the world's first non-hormonal male pill producing a semen-free orgasm - potentially reducing male-to-female HIV transmission. He is author/co-author of c 300 publications on environmental sustainability, reproductive health and population, contracep Klappentext This handbook provides practical, evidence-based guidance on the care of adolescents, reproductive age females, and males. It follows chronological age up to the menopause, covering areas such as the reproductive system, puberty, the menstrual cycle, contraceptive methods, and infertility. Zusammenfassung This handbook provides practical! evidence-based guidance on the care of adolescents! reproductive age females! and males. It follows chronological age up to the menopause! covering areas such as the reproductive system! puberty! the menstrual cycle! contraceptive methods! and infertility. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1; 1 Sexual differentiation; 2 Steroid hormones; 3 Menarche and adolescent gynaecology; 4 Ovaries and the menstrual cycle; 5 Polycystic ovary syndrome; 6 Hirsutism and virilization; 7 Amenorrhoea and oligomenorrhoea; 8 Recurrent Miscarriage; 9 Menopause and hormone replacement therapy; 10 Initial advice to those concerned about delays in conception; 11 Defining infertility; 12 Investigation of fertility problems; 13 Management strategies for fertility problems; 14 Male infertility; 15 Ovulation induction; 16 Tubal and uterine disorders; 17 Medical and surgical management of endometriosis; 18 Intra-uterine insemination; 19 In vitro fertilization (IVF) and associated assisted conception techniques; Part 2; 20 Fertility and fertility awareness; 21 Male contraception; 22 Vaginal methods; 23 The combined oral contraceptive (COC); 24 Progestogen-only pill (POP); 25 Injectables; 26 Contraceptive implants; 27 Intra-uterine contraception; 28 Postcoital contraception; 29 Sterilization; 30 Special considerations...
