Cambridge Guide to Infertility Management and Assisted Reproduction

by Godwin I. Meniru, Alvin Langer

Overview

This well-illustrated new publication provides concise yet comprehensive practical information on the modern-day approach to the diagnosis and treatment of infertility. The author explains basic principles of reproductive physiology, before moving on to the medical causes of infertility. The full armory of techniques from IVF to ICSI and even newer technologies used to treat infertility in all its manifestations is described and detailed. The aim throughout is to explain issues clearly, simply, and directly in a way that will be understood by doctors, scientists, and nurses alike. By combining basic science and medical aspects, along with "how it is done" descriptions of techniques and medical interventions, this book offers an unsurpassed introductory account of this fast moving area.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521010719
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/04/2001
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	6.93(w) x 9.76(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

After qualifying in medicine, Dr Godwin Meniru has specialised and worked extensively in the area of reproductive medicine, including studies for Master of Medical Sciences degree in Assisted Reproduction Technology at Nottingham University, followed by Fellowship in Reproductive Medicine at the London Gynaecology and Fertility Centre in London. Subsequent training and practice was undertaken in Brunei, and more recently at the Aultman Hospital in Canton, Ohio, where he is presently based. He is also known as the principal author of A Handbook of Intrauterine Insemination published by Cambridge University Press in 1997 (ISBN 0521 58676 3)

Table of Contents

Foreword; Preface; 1. The male reproductive system; 2. The female reproductive system; 3. Fertilisation, implantation and early development; 4. Male factor problems; 5. Female factor problems; 6. Evaluation of the infertile couple; 7. Medical and surgical treatment of infertility; 8. Conventional in-vitro fertilisation; 9. Intracytoplasmic sperm injection; 10. Surgical sperm retrieval; 11. Intratubal replacement of gametes and embryos (GIFT, ZIFT); 12. Intrauterine insemination; 13. Cryopreservation of gametes, ovarian tissue, testicular tissue and embryos; frozen embryo replacement; 14. Assisted hatching; 15. Preimplantation diagnosis of genetic disease; 16. Acronyms in assisted reproduction technology; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"Strongly [recommended] to public libraries and it would not be out of place in a medical or nursing library, where the readership interested in infertility would find the chapters on assisted conception to be particularly relevant." Doctors.net

"The book is easy to read and its content is appropriate for health professionals and those with fertility problems alike." Doctors.net

"[This book] can help in acquiring a quick and general view of the subject in a short period of time.... it may enable the doctor to address many issues with patients in a language they would find easy to understand." The Obstetrician and Gynaecologist

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