Pak H. Chung - Problem-Focused Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility

Contemporary Endocrinology offers an array of titles covering clinical as well as bench research topics of interest to practicing endocrinologists and researchers. Topics include obesity management, androgen excess disorders, stem cells in endocrinology, evidence-based endocrinology, diabetes, genomics and endocrinology, as well as others. Series Editor Leonid Poretsky, MD, is Chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Associate Chairman for Research at Lenox Hill Hospital, and Professor of Medicine at Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine.

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Truly amazing advances occur in reproductive medicine with immense speed. It is therefore becoming extremely important to provide factual up-to-date information on reproductive issues to health professionals both for their daily work and for their efforts in educating the general public.

In this regard, the volume edited by Drs. Pak Chung and Zev Rosenwaks presents an invaluable tool. Written by a stellar interdisciplinary faculty crew associated with a world-renowned Center for Reproductive Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, this text covers completely and succinctly the entire field of reproductive medicine.

The case-based approach chosen by the authors and editors makes the book particularly useful for clinicians as well as students of reproductive medicine at all levels of training. Publication of this comprehensive volume, excellent in both content and form, could not be more timely. Congratulations are in order to the editors and all authors for their impressive accomplishment.

We are eminently pleased and excited to present this handbook, titled Problem-Focused Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. It is our hope that this foundational contribution will become a useful resource for students, residents, fellows, reproductive endocrinologists, and other medical professionals who provide care for infertility and reproductive disorders. This comprehensive compendium is one of a series of more than 80 titles published by Springer, Contemporary Endocrinology, that address a variety of clinical and research topics in endocrinology.

This book offers two special features. First, all the authors are faculty members in the Departments of Reproductive Medicine, Urology, and Internal Medicine at Weill-Cornell Medicine. Second, the titles of the chapters are problem- or focus-based. Each is either a chief complaint or a problem encountered in clinical practice. Every chapter is launched with an authentic case presentation followed by an in-depth discussion of the topic. The authors strive to provide the physiological and pathophysiological basis for each clinical problem along with the available evidence-based contemporary therapy.

The collective contributions of our Weill Cornell colleagues not only represent a distillation of many years of clinical experience but also provide a glimpse into their individual and often unique clinical approaches. We anticipate that our readers will find the material useful and impactful in their clinical practice.

Our special thanks to all the contributors who made this project possible.