1st Edition

Textbook of Periconceptional Medicine

Edited By Nicholas Macklon, Ian Greer, Eric Steegers Copyright 2009

    A new subspecialty is growing at the interface of reproductive medicine and perinatology: infertility. Textbook of Periconceptional Medicine provides an authoritative and comprehensive reference resource for those providing medical care to women trying to conceive a healthy pregnancy.

    A revolutionary first edition, this text brings together a number of difficult and usually separate topics and provides the busy clinician with one authoritative and methodical reference.

    Reflecting the breadth of modern clinical practice in this emerging therapy area, this integrated text incorporates aspects of all the relevant existing expertise, including:

    • Preconceptual counseling
    • Fertility investigation
    • Therapy and management of preconception through the first trimester of pregnancy

    Preconception
    Genetics and Conception
    Lifestyle and Conception
    Preconceptual Counseling
    Preparing the High-Risk Patient
    The Patient with Renal Disease
    The Patient with an Organ Transplant
    The Patient with Hypertension
    The Patient with Cardiac Disease
    The Patient with Thyroid Disease
    The Patient with Diabetes
    The Patient with Epilepsy
    The Patient with Thrombosis and Bleeding Disorders
    The Patient with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
    The Patient with HIV
    The Patient with Cystic Fibrosis
    The Patient with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
    The Patient with Prolactinoma
    Periconceptional Issues in Neuromuscular Disorders
    The Patient with or at Risk of Severe Mental Illness
    Achieving Pregnancy
    How to Conceive: Evidence Based Fertility Investigation The Anovulatory Patient
    The Patient with Endometriosis
    The Patient with Poor Sperm Quality
    The Patient with Tubal Disease
    The Couple with Unexplained Infertility
    The Patient from the Developing World
    Older Woman Wishing to Conceive
    Psychological Aspects of Fertility Therapy
    The Luteal Phase
    Implantation Failure
    Management of Early Pregnancy
    Early Placental Development
    The Immunology of Early Pregnancy
    Mechanisms and Nomenclature of Early Pregnancy Loss
    Antiphospholipid Syndrome, Heritable Thrombophilia and Early Pregnancy Loss
    Ultrasound in Early Pregnancy
    Evidence Based Investigation and Management of Miscarriage
    Ectopic Pregnancy after Fertility Treatment
    Molar Pregnancy
    Multiple Pregnancy
    Cervical Cerclage and Pregnancy Loss
    The IVF Pregnancy: High Risk Management?

    Biography

    Nicholas Macklon, Ian Greer, Eric Steegers