Elizabeth S. Ginsburg • Catherine Racowsky Editors 2012 In vitro fertilization (IVF) gained recognition as a realistic treatment for infertility with the birth of Louise Brown in 1978. Since then, the evaluation of male and female infertility has been refined and the field has made tremendous strides.
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Jeannette M. Potts Editor 2012 A Guide to Clinical Practice This is the new and greatly improved edition of Essential Urology . I consider myself very fortunate to have been given the opportunity to make improvements on what has already been one of the most successful books in the urology series.
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Uwe Frank Evelina Tacconelli 2012 The first edition of Franz Daschner’s pocketbook “Antibiotika am Krankenbett” was published in Germany in 1982. The purpose of the book was to provide physicians and pharmacists, residents, medical students and healthcare professionals in allied fields with a concise reference source for antibiotic drugs, listing the preparations available, antimicrobial spectra, usual dosages, adverse effects, and, […]
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Zsolt Peter Nagy • Alex C. Varghese Ashok Agarwal Editors 2012 In vitro fertilization (IVF) is the most advanced medical technology for the treatment of infertility. During this process, oocytes from the woman and the sperm from the man are brought together outside of the body, in an “artifi cial” environment (initially using glass made test tubes or […]
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Clarisa Gracia Teresa K. Woodruff Editors 2012 More than 100,000 females younger than 45 years of age are diagnosed with cancer annually; of these, approximately 12,400 are children younger than 20 years of age [1, 2]. Over the past four decades, advances in cancer therapies, particularly chemotherapeutics, have led to dramatic improvements in survival [3].
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Per Glud Ovesen • Dorte Møller Jensen Editors 2012 Worldwide, there has been a dramatic increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in women of childbearing age. Current estimates suggest that 64.1% of the US women are overweight and 35.5% obese (Flegal et al. 2010). Overweight and obesity affects nearly half of the US women of reproductive […]
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Sijo J. Parekattil ● Ashok Agarwal Editors 2012 The field of male infertility truly illustrates the need for a multispecialty approach to the effective diagnosis and management of such conditions. From the initial referral possibly from a reproductive endocrinology gynecologist and embryologist to the male infertility urologist, andrologist, nurses, researchers, and alternative medicine specialists, this multidisciplinary team needs to […]
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Antonio Luna · Joan C. Vilanova Pablo R. Ros (Editors) 2012
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Hannah Cohen • Patrick O’Brien Editors 2012 This book provides a contemporary and comprehensive guide to all those involved in the management of hematological disorders in pregnancy. It covers a wide range of important clinical disorders that are associated with a potentially significant risk of morbidity and mortality in both the mother and the baby.
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Katharina Spanel-Borowski 2012 Morphological Dynamics and Potential Role of Innate Immunity The ovary is an organ with high tissue plasticity because of the growth, rupture, and atresia of follicles and the cyclic formation and decay of the corpus luteum (CL). The impressive dynamics in the ovary are especially evident in species of young reproductive age, but may […]
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