Main description:

This book is a concise guide to the diagnosis and management of reproductive health issues in adolescents that may lead to future fertility problems.

Beginning with an overview of female adolescence and reproductive development, the following chapters cover different disorders including PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome), endometriosis, anaemia, menstrual abnormalities, teenage pregnancy and abortion, STIs and more.

Each section provides step by step guidance from history taking, signs and symptoms, and clinical examination, to diagnosis and therapy.

A complete chapter covers the 2012 POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act.

Key points

Concise guide to reproductive health issues in adolescents, subsequently leading to fertility problems
Discusses investigation, diagnosis and management of numerous disorders
Covers POCSO Act 2012
Includes clinical images and figures to assist learning

Contents:

Thieves of sexual health, future fertility & reproductive outcomes in adolescents
Adolescent PCOS
Primary amenorrhea
Congenital anomalies: future fertility
Fertility preservation in ovarian tumours in adolescents
Fibroids in adolescents
Endometriosis in adolescents
Menstrual abnormalities in adolescents
Teenage pregnancies and abortions
Anemia in adolescents
Sexually transmitted infection in adolescents
Contraception in adolescents
Sexual reproductive health rites in adolescents
POCSO Act 2012
Premarital sex and unprotected sexual practices in adolescents
Adolescent friendly health clinic