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Summary:

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 effecti.

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Managing Perimenopausal and Postmenopausal Symptoms with the New Menopausal HT
• FAQ: Definitions of Menopause and Biological Actions of Sex Steroids
• Principles of Practice
• Medical Association Guidelines, Post-2002/Women's Health Initiative Findings
• Perimenopausal Symptoms: Hot Flushes and Night Sweats; Sleep Disturbances; Urogenital Discomfort; Sexual Libido Issues; Mood and Cognitive Changes
• FAQ: Bioidentical Hormones: Compounded and Non-compounded
• Part II: Prescription of HT
• Transdermal Estrogen as Preferred Prescription for Perimenopausal Symptom Relief, and the Role of Progesterone
• The Significance of Hormone Routes of Administration
• Hormone Therapy: Individualizing Treatment Based Upon Perimenopausal Symptoms
• FAQ: HT Prescription
• Part III: Monitoring, Side Effects, Co-existing Conditions, and Ending Treatment
• Hormone Therapy: Monitoring Effects and Side Effects
• FAQ: Evaluation of Abnormal Menstrual Bleeding
• FAQ: Ending HT
• FAQ: HT and Other Conditions: Uterine Fibroids, Autoimmune disease, Hypothyroidism, and History of Breast Cancer
• Part IV: The Medical and Cultural History of HT
• History of HT Use: Controversies and Confusions
• The 2002 Women's Health Initiative Study (WHI): What Did It Prove or Disprove? Future Directions.

Author/Creator:

Sherif, Katherine

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English.

Main Work:

Hormone therapy: a clinical handbook [by Sherif, K.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Hormone therapy [by Sherif, K.] (New York, NY : Springer, ©2013 — LCCN 2013933360)

Subjects:

Menopause — Hormone therapy — Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Menopause — Hormone therapy

Menopause

Genres:

Handbooks and manuals

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 127 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

RG186 .S54 2013eb

ISBNs:

9781461462682 (electronic bk.)
1461462681 (electronic bk.)
9781461462675 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1007/978-1-4614-6268-2

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2013933360 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

844182676