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Taylor & Francis The Menopause Comprehensive Management Fourth Edition 2000 by Bernard A. Eskin
This fully updated new edition of an acclaimed clinical textbook on management of the menopause offers 21 detailed chapters by the field's leading expert. These leading authorities cover aging and the menopause, endocrinology of the menopause, clinical problems, and therapy. Chapters on clinical problems discuss osteoporosis, cardiovascular diseases, exercise, gynecologic problems, urologic problems, the breast, cognitive changes, psychosexual problems, nutrition, and alternative therapies. Chapters on therapy discuss the pharmacology of hormonal therapeutic agents and hormone replacement therapy, routes of administration of estrogen and progesterone, and the relationship between estrogen replacement therapy and cancer. Table of contents :- Foreword. Preface. I. Aging and the menopause: The menopause and aging. Geripause. Pregnancy in perimenopausal and menopausal women. Pathology of the menopause. Women's sexual capacities at mid-life. II. Endocrinology of the menopause: The thyroid in the menopause. Hormonal changes in the perimenopause. Sex steroid hormone metabolism in the climacteric woman. Infertility in the older woman. III. Clinical problems in the menopause: Osteoporosis. Menopause and cardiovascular disease. Exercise in the menopause. Gynecological problems in menopausal women. Urological problems. The breast in the menopause. Cognitive changes in the menopause. Nutritional aspects of the menopause. IV. Therapy of the menopause: Pharmacology of hormonal therapeutic agents. Hormone replacement therapy. Routes of hormone replacement therapy. Breast cancer and estrogen replacement therapy. Epilogue. Index.