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This concise book presents an interdisciplinary approach to hormone replacenent therapy, that promotes deeper understanding. Includes helpful tables and algorithms, and directions for prescribing hormone therapy in the safest and most effective ways possible.

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Hormone Replacement 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 effective and safest ways possible. Targeted and easy to read, Hormone Replacement Therapy: A Clinical Handbook offers all clinicians the state-of-the-art information they need to prescribe hormone therapy and hormone replacement therapy.

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Section I. Managing Perimenopausal and Postmenopausal Symptoms with the New Menopausal HT

Chapter 1 Definitions of Menopause and Biological Actions of Sex Steroids

Chapter 2 Principles of Practice

Chapter 3 Medical Association Guidelines, post--2002/Women´s Health Initiative Findings

Chapter 4 Perimenopausal Symptoms: Hot Flushes and Night Sweats; Sleep Disturbances; Urogenital Discomfort; Sexual Libido Issues; Mood and Cognitive Changes

Chapter 5 Bio-identical Hormones: Compounded and Non-Compounded

Section II Prescription of HT

Overview

Chapter 6 Transdermal Estrogen as Preferred Prescription for Perimenopausal Symptom Relief, and the Role of Progesterone

Chapter 7 The Significance of Hormone Routes of Administration

Chapter 8 Hormone Therapy: Individualizing Treatment Based Upon Perimenopausal Symptoms

Chapter 9 FAQ: HT Prescription

Section III: Monitoring, Side Effects, Co-existing Conditions, and Ending Treatment

Overview

Chapter 10 Hormone Therapy: Monitoring Effects and Side Effects

Chapter 11 Evaluation of Abnormal Menstrual Bleeding

Chapter 12 FAQ: Ending HT

Chapter 13 FAQ: HT and Other Conditions: Uterine Fibroids, Autoimmune Disease, Hypothyroidism and History of Breast Cancer

Section IV. The Medical and Cultural History of HT

Overview

Chapter 14 History of HT Use: Controversies and Confusions

Chapter 15 The 2002 Women´s Health Initiative Study (WHI): What Did It Prove or Disprove? Future Directions

Appendix: Reference Table of HT Brand Names

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Katherine Sherif, MD, FACP
Drexel University College of Medicine, Drexel Center for Women´s Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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