Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Challenging Issues in the Modern Era of Individualized Medicine

Women's healthcare regarding polycystic ovarian syndrome remains challenging. Patients often go from one specialist to another trying to fully understand and management the disorder. Women often go years before a diagnosis, seeing three or more doctors before a confirmed diagnosis. Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome: Challenging Issues in the Modern Era of Individualized Medicine brings together multiple medical disciplines to improve the care of women with PCOS. Such a multidisciplinary clinical and scientific approach integrates obstetrics and gynecology, pediatric and medical endocrinology, internal medicine, genetics, psychology and laboratory medicine into relevant translational clinical and scientific discussions that update both the scientific understanding of PCOS and the diagnosis and management of all aspects of the syndrome. The impact of PCO on the onset of puberty is subdivided in sub sections to get a better understanding of this condition and the management at different stages in a woman's life. Represents an unparalleled compilation of chapters from experts in the field relevant to contemporary polycystic ovarian syndromeCovers aspects such as obesity, metabolic changes, and emotional changes associated with PCOSHighlights contemporary management and the current understanding of this unique syndrome with a comprehensive and fresh approach INDICE: 1. History 2. Epidemiology 3. Genetics of PCOS and familial occurance clinical presentations 4. Pubertal onset 5. Effect of obesity 6. Diagnostic criteria and phenotypic expression 7. Dermatological 8. Reproductive 9. Metabolic 10. Mood-affective PATHOPHYSIOLOGY 11. Developmental origins during fetal life 12. Prepuberal disposition 13. Pubertal changes 14. Reproductive Changes 15. Maternal-fetal changes 16. Adrenal dysfunction 17. Glucose-insulin homeostasis 18. Adiposity effects 19. Pancreatic function 20. Animal models of PCOS LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES   21. Cancers (endometrial but also discuss ovarian and breast) 22. Diabetes 23. Cardiovascular disease DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS 24. Ovarian hyperthecosis 25. Androgen Producing Neoplasms (ovarian and adrenal) 26. Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia 27. Cushing Syndrome 28. Acromegaly 29. Drug induced CLINICAL EVALUATION 30. Physical examination 31. Hormonal 32. Metabolic 33. Imaging Studies TREATMENT  34. Non-infertility 35. Anovulatory infertility

• ISBN: 978-0-12-823045-9
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2021
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés