TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sherif,Katherine
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Hormone Therapy: A Clinical Handbook 
SN  - 9781461462682
AV  - RC1-1245 
U1  - 616 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Springer New York, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Medicine
KW  - General practice (Medicine)
KW  - Obstetrics
KW  - Internal medicine
KW  - Cardiology
KW  - Endocrinology
KW  - Primary care (Medicine)
KW  - Medicine & Public Health
KW  - Internal Medicine
KW  - Primary Care Medicine
KW  - General Practice / Family Medicine
KW  - Obstetrics/Perinatology
N1  - Definitions of Menopause and Biological Actions of Sex Steroids -- Principles of Practice -- Medical Association Guidelines, post--2002/Women’s Health Initiative Findings -- Perimenopausal Symptoms: Hot Flushes and Night Sweats; Sleep Disturbances; Urogenital Discomfort; Sexual Libido Issues; Mood and Cognitive Changes -- Bio-identical Hormones: Compounded and Non-Compounded -- Transdermal Estrogen as Preferred Prescription for Perimenopausal Symptom Relief, and the Role of Progesterone -- The Significance of Hormone Routes of Administration -- Hormone Therapy: Individualizing Treatment Based Upon Perimenopausal Symptoms -- FAQ: HT Prescription.-Evaluation of Abnormal Menstrual Bleeding -- FAQ: Ending HT -- FAQ: HT and Other Conditions: Uterine Fibroids, Autoimmune Disease, Hypothyroidism and History of Breast Cancer -- History of HT Use: Controversies and Confusions -- The 2002 Women’s Health Initiative Study (WHI): What Did It Prove or Disprove? Future Directions
N2  - Hormone 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 Therapy: A Clinical Handbook offers all clinicians the state-of-the-art information they need to prescribe hormone therapy and hormone replacement therapy
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6268-2
ER  -