Main description:

This volume comprehensively focuses on amenorrhea, one of the most important diseases in gynecology, affecting women from puberty to menopause.

Amenorrhea is analyzed from its etiologies, pathogenesis, consequences and treatments throughout puberty, food and cycle disorders, exercise and stress impact, fertility- and sexual-related affection, and menopause transition.

Written by experts in the field, this book will be of benefits to residents, general practitioners and specialists, gynecologists and endocrinologists, who deal with women's health care.

Contents:

1. Mullerian Malformations and their treatments.- 2. Adolescent primary amenorrhea.- 3. Amenorrhea in eating disorders.- 4. The new functional hypotalamic amenorrheas.- 5. Exercise and Stress Related Amenorrhea.- 6. Sexual dysfunction in functional hypothalamic amenorrhea.- 7. Endocrine Gland Disorders Related Amenorrhea.- 8. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.- 9. Amenorrhoea associated with contraception and the postpartum period.- 10. Amenorrhea in Oncological Patients.- 11. Premature Ovarian Insufficiency.- 12. Menopause a natural condition: does it requires to be corrected ? For whom and for how long?.