Debmalya Barh Editor 2014 Towards Next-Generation Diagnosis, Prognosis and Therapy Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer specific deaths in women worldwide. Screening and early diagnosis provides better patient management, improves treatment efficacy, and reduce mortality. With the advent of nextgeneration “omics” technologies; several early markers, novel targets, and personalized targeted therapeutics are now […]
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Gopal H. Badlani Editor 2014 Pelvic floor dysfunction is a major healthcare problem, affecting millions of women throughout the world. Incontinence has a larger economic impact than many chronic conditions and diseases. One in every nine American women will undergo surgery for a pelvic floor disorder in her lifetime, with 30 % of those women […]
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John P. Mulhall • Wayland Hsiao Editors 2014 A Clinician’s Guide Andrology, the study of all things male, straddles two worlds in our modern medical apparatus: sexual medicine and reproductive medicine. With differing focuses and often-different patient populations, an andrologist has to truly master both disciplines to take care of the whole male. It is […]
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Stefan S. du Plessis • Ashok Agarwal Edmund S. Sabanegh Jr. Editors 2014 A Complete Guide to Lifestyle and Environmental Factors Male infertility is on the upsurge worldwide, thereby contributing progressively more to couple infertility. There is growing evidence supporting causal links between the environment, lifestyle choices, general male health, systemic disease, and male reproductive […]
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Birgit Kumbrink 2014 Basics Techniques Indications This book is intended to serve as a reference work for trained »K-Tapers« and a useful everyday tool for practitioners. It includes a variety of indications for treatment, and is full of information and advice based on over 10 years of experience.
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Ernst Rainer Weissenbacher Monika Wirth • Ioannis Mylonas William J. Ledger • Steven S. Witkin 2014 The mucosal immune system in the female reproductive tract has evolved to meet the unique requirements of dealing with colonization with commensal microorganisms, sexually transmitted bacterial and viral pathogens, allogeneic spermatozoa, and the immunologically distinct fetus. It is now […]
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He-Feng Huang • Jian-Zhong Sheng Editors 2014 Prenatal and early postnatal events increase the risk of some diseases in later life including diabetes, coronary heart disease and hypertension etc. In 1934, a landmark paper, published in the Lancet , found that death rates from all causes in the UK and Sweden decreased with each successive […]
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Denny Sakkas • Mandy G Katz-Jaffe Carlos E Sueldo 2014 Genomics, Metabolomics and Morphological Assessment
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Bengt Källén 2014 In 1964, a few years after the thalidomide tragedy, the National Board of Health and Welfare in Sweden decided to start a register of congenital malformations for surveillance purposes. Together with Jan Winberg, pediatrician, I was tasked with arranging and running the register which I continued with until 1997, a third of […]
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Tasuku Harada Editor 2014 Pathogenesis and Treatment Endometriosis remains an enigmatic disease despite a long history of research into its basic science and clinical aspects. Sampson published his pioneer article in 1927 theorizing that retrograde menstruation may cause peritoneal endometriosis. Since that time, researchers throughout the world have wrestled with the mysteries of the disease. […]
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