Reproductive medicine

The book elucidates a practical method for prenatal screening and detecting Down syndrome in a simple and easy-to-understand language.

With radical changes happening in arts over the past two decades, this book brings us up to date with the social and economic contexts in which the arts are produced.

This volume presents the latest advances and the current status of our understanding regarding ovarian cancer, addressing both the basic and clinical aspects of the disease.

Practical, evidence-based guide to managing ART pregnancies, based on 30 years of clinical experience, including gynaecological, genetic and obstetric complications.

Fully revised new edition highlighting the scientific and clinical advances in the field of developmental origins of health and disease.

All persons, while different from one another, have the same value: this is the author's relatively uncontroversial starting point.

The Placenta: From Development to Disease examines research into placental function and its clinical implications to provide a springboard for improving clinical practice and enhancing medical research.

Covers the latest insights any fetal specialist needs and provides essential knowledge for professionals caring for women with high-risk pregnancies.

This book presents an overview of the diagnostic performance of non- or semi-invasive tests for endometriosis in peripheral blood, endometrium, saliva, peritoneal fluid and urine.

This practical handbook provides detailed guidelines on prescribing drugs in all classes and for a wide variety of diseases and disorders during pregnancy, with numerous boxes and tables to assist understanding.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to various types of perinatal stem cells.

Are you an anesthesiologist or obstetrician navigating the complex landscape of peripartum care?

In the last decades, major advances have been made in assisted reproductive technologies (ART) and the public demand for these procedures has increased globally.

The Fourth Edition of Knobil & Neill continues to serve as a reference aid for research, to provide the historical context to current research, and most importantly as an aid for graduate teaching on a broad range of topics in human and comparative reproduction.

This book provides to nurses an understanding of female sexual function and dysfunction specifically in relation to common gynecological conditions.

An ideal reference for infertility specialists and reproductive endocrinologists alike, this comprehensive text discusses current natural and mild approaches to in vitro fertilization (IVF) and the development of in vitro maturation (IVM) as a clinical treatment.

This book provides updates on the most recent developments in individualized infertility treatment resulting in improved outcomes.

An easy to read, practical description of the human IVF laboratory, from laboratory start-up and training to complex, specialized procedures.

Biopolitics and posthumanism have been passe theories in the academy for a while now, standing on the unfashionable side of the fault line between biology and liberal thought.

Women live longer than men and one-third of the female population in Western societies is aged over 50.

This book, by two of the most distinguished figures in fertility and reproduction research, answers all the most common questions about menaupause and andropause, and hormone resupplement therapy (HRT) for menopausal women.

Here are 120 multiple choice questions on family planning and reproductive health care.

Essential Reproduction provides an accessible account of the fundamentals of reproduction within the context of cutting-edge knowledge and examples of its application.

A practical book on the unique fetal conditions amenable to surgical corrections and the anesthetic considerations for mother and child.

Epigenetics is a rapidly expanding field in medical and biological research which concerns heritable traits that are not attributable to changes in the DNA sequence.

This comprehensive textbook on fertility preservation is a gold-standard publication covering all scientific and clinical subjects related to this field.

This second edition offers a unique and focused study of the use of ultrasound during the first trimester, a critical time in a fetus' development.

The Routledge International Handbook of Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health is the authoritative reference work on important, leading-edge developments in the domains of women's sexual and reproductive health.

The Lure of Hope portrays a snap shot of the rise and fall of commercial surrogacy in India.

This book combines the most recent knowledge on the maternal, i.

A comprehensive guide for trainee embryologists and medical students in the specialized techniques and technology of assisted reproduction.

The successful achievement of pregnancies following pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) was first reported in April 1990.

'Hill's advice is straightforward and no-nonsense' - The Guardian 'A life-transforming book fascinating - Daily Mail'Maisie Hill has written a bloody brilliant book (pun intended).

In the era of molecular biology, an atlas that allows a rapid understanding of the complexity of ovarian processes is urgently needed.

This is a comprehensive and definitive 2006 account of the human male gamete.

Different genetic diagnostic and treatment options are used worldwide to improve routine IVF procedures for the benefit of patients.

Life Before Birth provides a coherent framework for addressing bioethical issues in which the moral status of embryos and fetuses is relevant.

This book features short, practical, evidence-based chapters on a wide range of treatments and strategies to help optimize IVF outcomes.

Spermatogenesis involves the coordination of a number of signaling pathways, which culminate into production of sperm.

The book aims to bring into focus the current understanding of male reproduction and the pathological basis of failure to reproduce in men.

Modelled after the current MRCOG curriculum, the new edition of this bestselling book provides all the information a specialist registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology or senior house officer needs during training or when preparing for the MRCOG examination.

Comprised exclusively of clinical cases covering ectopic pregnancy, this concise, practical casebook will provide clinicians in reproductive medicine and obstetrics/gynecology with the best real-world strategies to properly diagnose and treat the various forms of the condition they may encounter.

The aim of this book is twofold: to promote an awareness of cultural differences in connection with sexual medicine among health care providers, and to demonstrate how such differences are relevant to the care and treatment of patients with sexual issues.

Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology, Second Edition, is a comprehensive and authoritative resource that provides the latest literature on this complex subject with a primary focus on three core components-parent, placenta, and fetus-and the continuous changes that occur in each.

This Brief offers a concise, handy overview of the main concepts related to Embryology, revisited through the novel concepts that are applied daily in stem cell research and cell therapy oriented investigations.