Reproductive and Hormonal Aspects of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases
- 1st Edition, Volume 4 - December 21, 2005
- Latest edition
- Editors: Michael Lockshin, Ware Branch
- Language: English
This volume of the Handbook of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases series represents a medical collaboration focusing primarily on female aspects of rheumatic diseases. This collab… Read more
This volume of the Handbook of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases series represents a medical collaboration focusing primarily on female aspects of rheumatic diseases. This collaboration recognizes the need to understand and optimally manage the care of women with autoimmune conditions that may affect their reproduction and hormonal status. This handbook will prove useful to clinicians and researchers alike. It covers practical points, ranging from which anti-rheumatic medications are safe in pregnancy to how to counsel women with scleroderma contemplating pregnancy.
* Authors share an academic interest in the unique relationship between being a woman and having an autoimmune disease
* Touches on controversial topics, such as the mechanism of antiphospholipid-related fetal loss and whether or not non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents should be used in pregnancy
* Includes critical and balanced reviews of the controversial association between autoimmune disease and female infertility
* Touches on controversial topics, such as the mechanism of antiphospholipid-related fetal loss and whether or not non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents should be used in pregnancy
* Includes critical and balanced reviews of the controversial association between autoimmune disease and female infertility
Maternal-fetal medicine specialists, obstetricians, gynecologists, pheumatologists, hematologists
Introduction
The role of sex/gender in autoimmune disease
Maternal-Fetal Aspects of Autoimmune Disease
Fertility and Autoimmune Disease
Pregnancy and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Anitphospholipid syndrome
Pregnancy in rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren syndrome and other rare autoimmune rheumatic Diseases
A Bedside Perspective of Neonatal Lupus
Use of anti-rheumatic drugs in Pregnancy
Offspring of women with systemic autoimmune diseases
Contraception in women with Autoimmune Diseases
Common Gynecological Problems in Women with Autoimmune Disease
The Climacteric and Osteoporosis in Women with Autoimmune Diseases
The role of sex/gender in autoimmune disease
Maternal-Fetal Aspects of Autoimmune Disease
Fertility and Autoimmune Disease
Pregnancy and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Anitphospholipid syndrome
Pregnancy in rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren syndrome and other rare autoimmune rheumatic Diseases
A Bedside Perspective of Neonatal Lupus
Use of anti-rheumatic drugs in Pregnancy
Offspring of women with systemic autoimmune diseases
Contraception in women with Autoimmune Diseases
Common Gynecological Problems in Women with Autoimmune Disease
The Climacteric and Osteoporosis in Women with Autoimmune Diseases
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Volume: 4
- Published: December 21, 2005
- Language: English
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Michael Lockshin
Affiliations and expertise
Hospital of Special Surgery, Barbara Volcker Centre, New York, U.S.A.
Co-Director, Mary Kirkland Center for Lupus Research; Professor of Medicine and Obstetrics-Gynecology, Joan and Sanford Weill College of Medicine of Cornell University;
Director,WB
Ware Branch
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Utah
Salt Lake City, U.S.A.Read Reproductive and Hormonal Aspects of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases on ScienceDirect