Clinical Reproductive Medicine and Surgery

Chapter 1: Ovarian Hormones: Structure, Biosynthesis, Function, Mechanism of Action, and Laboratory Diagnosis

Manjula K. Gupta and Su-Ynn Chia



Chapter 2: Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Ovarian Axis and Control of the Menstrual Cycle

Victor E. Beshay and Bruce R. Carr



Chapter 3: Female and Male Gametogenesis

Nina Desai, Jennifer Ludgin, Rakesh Sharma, J. Anirudh Kumar, and Ashok Agarwal



Chapter 4: Normal Puberty and Pubertal Disorders

M. Jonathon Solnik and Joseph S. Sanfilippo



Chapter 5: Fertilization and Implantation

Levent Mutlu, Matthew Macer, and Hugh S. Taylor



Chapter 6: Reproductive Imaging

Miriam S. Krause, Tiffany D. Justice, Rhiana D. Saunders, R. Ashley Milam, and Steven T. Nakajima



Chapter 7: Amenorrhea

Melissa F. Wellons and Robert W. Rebar



Chapter 8: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Erika B. Johnston-MacAnanny, John Kyun Park, and Sarah L. Berga



Chapter 9: Abnormal Uterine Bleeding

Sonia Elguero, Justin R. Lappen, and William W. Hurd



Chapter 10 : Menopause

James H. Liu and Francisco Arredondo



Chapter 11: Male Infertility

Mark Gibson and Ahmad O. Hammoud



Chapter 12: Female Infertility and Fertility Preservation

Candice O'Hern Perfetto, Gary M. Horowitz, Mohamed A. Bedaiwy, Tommaso Falcone, Jeffrey M. Goldberg, Marjan Attaran, Ashok Agarwal, and Lynn M.Westphal



Chapter 13: Recurrent Early Pregnancy Loss

Paul Robert Brezina and William H. Kutteh



Chapter 14: Induction of Ovulation

Alan M. Martinez and Steven R. Lindheim



Chapter 15: ART: Clinical and Laboratory Aspects

Beth Plante, Gary D. Smith, and Sandra Ann Carson

Chapter 16: Hysteroscopic Management

Tommaso Falcone, MD, FRCS(C), FACOG, is Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and Chairman of the Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. He is Vice Chairman of the Office of Professional Staff Affairs of the Cleveland Clinic. He is co-editor of a textbook, Clinical Reproductive Medicine and Surgery (Elsevier). He is co-author of a laparoscopic surgery atlas (Elsevier) and co-editor of Congenital Mullerian Anomalies (Lippincott). He is also co-author of a patient educational book titled Overcoming Infertility. Dr. Hurd is Professor of Reproductive Biology and the Lilian Hanna Baldwin Chair endowed in Gynecology and Obstetrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He is Chief of Reproductive Endocrinology Infertility at University Hospitals/MacDonald Women's Hospital. For almost two decades, he has been an active clinician and researcher focusing on reproductive endocrinology and infertility. He started his academic career as the Director of the IVF program at the University of Michigan Medical School. He then directed the IVF program and Reproductive Endocrinology Division at Indiana University School of Medicine. Most recently, he was the Chief of OB/GYN and the Assistant Dean for Military Affairs at Write State University School of Medicine in Dayton Ohio. Dr. Hurd came to University Hospitals in 2007 after finishing a 31 year career with the US Air Force Reserve.