Androgen Excess Disorders in Women
Editors:
RIcardo Azziz, John E. Nestler, Didier Dewailly
This book is an excellent and exhaustive compilation on androgen excess disorders in women an important component of gynaecologic endocrinology. It crystallises our current understanding of the various hormonal derangements that characterise androgen excess disorders and has contributions from eminent obstetricians, gynaecologists, pharmacologists, and endocrinologists, who provide detailed accounts of state-of-the-art research, clinical evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of hyperandrogenemia. The book provides valuable insight into androgen excess disorders, an essential pre-requisite for the accurate treatment of women affected by these complex problems.
The spectrum of chapters includes: androgen physiology; causes of androgen excess; polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS); adrenal androgens; obesity and insulin resistance in PCOS; idiopathic hirsutism; long-term impact of androgen excess; and evaluation and treatment of androgen excess. An in-depth understanding of this information is useful when treating women suffering from hyper-androgenism.
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About the reviewer...
Dr Mittal is a member of the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Communications Editorial Board. She is a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
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This book is one of its kind and will be of great help to teachers, researchers, and students of reproductive endocrinology.
Dr Suneeta Mittal
Your Guide to Zinc: The Doctor's Reference Booklet
Zinc deficiency is a major problem in India. This is the key impression that emerges from browsing this useful reference booklet. It seems to be designed to provide every relevant clinical fact about zinc that the busy doctor will ever need to know, and is likely to be kept within arm's reach in the clinic, for quick and easy reference. Patients' whose zinc needs require mandatory review, as identified by the booklet, include pregnant and breastfeeding women, breastfed and low birth weight infants, children with diarrhoea and those with growth delays, adolescents, elderly individuals, diabetic and immune-deficient patients, and those having suffered burns or major trauma.
Zinc deficiency occurs in many of the diseases that the doctor sees in the clinic, and it is associated with increased risk of serious infectious diseases such as diarrhoea, pneumonia, and malaria, as well as growth retardation. Of particular concern are the consequences of deficiency in the pregnant and breastfeeding mother and her infant.
The booklet briefly outlines the scientific basis for its clinical advice and, for the doctor who would like to follow-up further, references are provided.
Micaela M. Buckley
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Details
Title: Androgen Excess Disorders in Women (2nd Edition)
(Hardbound), 864 pages, 1997.
ISBN 0-397-51721-1
Publishers
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
227 East Washington Square
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Tel: 215/238-4200
E-mail:
http://www.lrpub.com/
Price
$US 172
Details
Your Guide to Zinc: The Doctor's Reference Booklet can be obtained free of charge from Dipanker Paul c/o SmithKline Beecham (India) Limited Pharmaceuticals, Devanahalli Road, Off Old Madras Road, Bangalore 560 049, or by telephoning 80-8510861.
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