1st Edition
Textbook of Periconceptional Medicine
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