A Modern Approach to the Perimenopausal Years / / ed. by Renate Heithecker, Robert B. Greenblatt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Medicine and Life Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Andersen, H. M.,; Brincat, M.,; Cardozo, L.,; Christiansen, C.,; Crosignani, P. G.,; Gambrell, R. D.,; Greenblatt, R. B.,; Hannse, H.,; Hunt, K.,; Husmann, F.,; Kuusi, T.,; Larsson-Cobn, U.,; Lindsay, R.,; Magos, A. L.,; Montgomery, J. C.,; Nikkila, E. A.,; Nocke, W.,; Notelovitz, M.,; Schneider, H. P. G.,; Schwartz, U.,; Studd, J. W. W.,; Tikkanen, M. J.,; Utian, W. H.,; Versi, E.,; Vessey, M.,; Wallentin, L.,; Wenderlein, J. M.,; Whitehead, M. I.,
• HerausgeberIn: Greenblatt, Robert B.,; Heithecker, Renate,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: Reprint 2019
• Language: English
• Series: New Developments in Biosciences ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Opening remarks
• Prologue
• 1. Physiology and pathophysiology of the perimenopausal years
• Some aspects of oogenesis, follicular growth, and endocrine involution
• The climacteric syndrome
• Skin and the menopause
• Osteoporosis: occurrence and diagnosis
• Lipids, hormonal status and the cardiovascular system in the postmenopause
• Psychosocial aspects in the perimenopause
• The bladder in the menopausal woman
• Discussion
• 2. Management of the climacteric patient
• 2.1. General aspects
• The influence of nutrition and exercise
• Non-hormonal medication
• Discussion
• 2.2. Hormonal treatment
• Selection of patients — kind and duration of treatment
• Routes of estrogen administration
• Sex steroids and lipoproteins
• Discussion
• 2.3. Risk-benefit evaluation of hormonal therapy
• Prospective study on long term risk of hormone replacement therapy
• Long-term metabolic effects of estrogen therapy
• Hormonal replacement therapy and breast cancer
• Prevention of endometrial abnormalities
• Estrogen/progestogen as a prophylactic treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis
• Discussion
• 2.4. Special aspects in premenopausal women
• Management of the premenstrual syndrome
• Contraception in premenopausal age
• Discussion
• Closing remarks
• Epilogue
• List of contributors
• Backmatter