Textbook of periconceptional medicine

SECTION A: PRECONCEPTION 1 The genetics of conception 1 JPM Geraedts 2 Lifestyle and conception 13 S Temel, JS Laven, and RPM Steegers-Theunissen 3 Preconception care 23 K Boer, RPM Steegers-Theunissen, and EAP Steegers SECTION B: PREPARING THE HIGH RISK PATIENT 4 The patient with renal disease 41 RJA Sims and M Ramsay 5 The patient with organ transplantation 57 S Winfield and JM Davison 6 The patient with hypertension 69 C Nelson-Piercy 7 The patient with cardiac disease 77 Y Karamermer and JW Roos-Hesselink 8 The patient with thyroid disease 89 W Visser 9 The patient with diabetes mellitus 99 JJN Oats 10 The patient with epilepsy 107 J Craig 11 The patient at risk from thrombosis and bleeding disorders 121 SM Nelson and IA Greer 12 The patient with polycystic ovary syndrome 137 RJ Norman and S Lim 13 The patient with HIV 143 K Boer and MH Godfried 14 The patient with cystic fibrosis 159 GCML Page-Christiaens and F Teding van Berkhout 15 The patient with inflammatory bowel disease 173 S Kane and R Kowalczyk 16 The patient with prolactinoma 179 ME Molitch 17 Periconceptional issues in neuromuscular disorders 191 W Verpoest and M De Vos 18 The patient with, or at risk of, severe mental illness 199 R Cantwell SECTION C: ACHIEVING PREGNANCY 19 How to conceive: evidence-based fertility investigation 205 BW Mol, JW van der Steeg, HR Verhoeve, and F van der Veen 20 Achieving pregnancy in the anovulatory woman 215 RS Legro and A Dokras 21 The patient with endometriosis: achieving pregnancy 223 A Vodolazkaia and TM D’Hooghe 22 The patient with poor sperm quality 233 BJ Cohlen and H Tournaye 23 The patient with tubal disease 241 A Strandell 24 The couple with unexplained infertility 251 GI Serour and M Aboulghar 25 The patient from the developing world 261 W Ombelet and G Nargund 26 The older woman wishing to conceive 273 CB Lambalk and FJ Broekmans 27 Psychological issues in periconceptional care 287 L Bunting and J Boivin 28 The luteal phase 297 HM Fatemi, B Fauser, P Devroey, and NS Macklon 29 Implantation failure 309 JA Garcia-Velasco and E Sánchez SECTION D: MANAGEMENT OF EARLY PREGNANCY 30 Early placental development and pregnancy outcome 317 GJ Burton and E Jauniaux 31 The immunology of early pregnancy 329 S Scherjon 32 Nomenclature and mechanisms of early pregnancy loss 341 R Farquharson and N Exalto 33 Antiphospholipid syndrome, heritable thrombophilia and early pregnancy loss 349 B Brenner, A Aharon, and G Sarig 34 Ultrasound in early pregnancy 357 S Suri, J Johns, and E Jauniaux 35 Evidence-based investigations and treatments of recurrent miscarriage 367 OB Christiansen 36 Ectopic pregnancy after fertility treatment 379 B Refaat, M Al-Azemi, and W Ledger 37 Molar pregnancy: pathology and management 393 RS Berkowitz and DP Goldstein 38 Multiple pregnancy 405 DLH Moore, NM Fisk, and J Hyett 39 Cervical cerclage and pregnancy loss 419 M Chandiramani and AH Shennan 40 Are pregnancies conceived by IVF ‘high risk’? 433 CE Fox and MD Kilby