Hormone Therapy: A Clinical Handbook

ISBN-13: 9781461462675 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 127 str.

Katherine Sherif

Opis

Hormone Therapy: A Clinical Handbook provides a comprehensive overview on hormone replacement therapy, with a range of key features that differentiate it from other titles on the topic. This concise, handy title presents an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, acknowledging that sex hormones affect more than reproductive organs and hot flushes for a deeper understanding of how hormones function. The authors provide a breadth and depth of practical prescribing experience, including many helpful tables and algorithms as well as directions for prescribing hormone therapy in the most effective and safest ways possible. Targeted and easy to read, Hormone Therapy: A Clinical Handbook offers all clinicians the state-of-the-art information they need to prescribe hormone therapy and hormone replacement therapy.

Spis treści

Section I. Managing Perimenopausal and Postmenopausal Symptoms with the New Menopausal HT
 
Chapter 1      Definitions of Menopause and Biological Actions of Sex Steroids
   
Chapter 2      Principles of Practice

Chapter 3      Medical Association Guidelines, post--2002/Women’s Health Initiative Findings
 
Chapter 4      Perimenopausal Symptoms: Hot Flushes and Night Sweats; Sleep Disturbances; Urogenital Discomfort; Sexual Libido Issues; Mood and Cognitive Changes    
 
Chapter 5      Bio-identical Hormones: Compounded and Non-Compounded
          
          
Section II Prescription of HT

Overview
 
Chapter 6      Transdermal Estrogen as Preferred Prescription for Perimenopausal Symptom Relief, and the Role of Progesterone
 
 
Chapter 7      The Significance of Hormone Routes of Administration
 
Chapter 8      Hormone Therapy: Individualizing Treatment Based Upon Perimenopausal Symptoms
 
Chapter 9     FAQ: HT Prescription
 
 
Section III: Monitoring, Side Effects, Co-existing Conditions, and Ending Treatment
 
Overview
 
Chapter 10   Hormone Therapy: Monitoring Effects and Side Effects 
 
 
Chapter 11   Evaluation of Abnormal Menstrual Bleeding
 
Chapter 12   FAQ: Ending HT
 
  
Chapter 13   FAQ: HT and Other Conditions: Uterine Fibroids, Autoimmune Disease, Hypothyroidism and History of Breast Cancer
 
 
Section IV. The Medical and Cultural History of HT
 
Overview
 
Chapter 14   History of HT Use: Controversies and Confusions
 
Chapter 15   The 2002 Women’s Health Initiative Study (WHI): What Did It Prove or Disprove? Future Directions
 
 
Appendix: Reference Table of HT Brand Names 
 

O autorze

Katherine Sherif, MD, FACP
Drexel University College of Medicine, Drexel Center for Women's Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA