Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine, 2nd Edition,Marianne Legato,ISBN9780123742711
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Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine, 2nd Edition

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Gender-Specific Medicine examines how normal human biology and physiology differ between men and women and how the diagnosis and treatment of disease differ as a function of gender. In response to market need, the second edition is a one-volume, priced-to-market, text reference focusing on the essentials of prevention and treatment through a comparative gender lens.

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Key Features

  • Editor has eliminated approximately 55 chapters from the first edition to make the book more compact and more focused on the essentials of gender-specific medicine.
  • Longer bibliographies and suggested reviews/papers of particular relevance and importance will be added at the end of each section.

  • Each author will be asked to include recent meta-analysis of data
  • Each chapter will progress translationally from the basic science to the clinical applications of gender-specific therapies, drugs, or treatments
  • Section on drug metabolism will be eliminated but the subject will be incorporated into each relevant chapter
  • Section on aging will be eliminated but age will be considered as a variable in each of the separate chapters

Readership

Researchers and practitioners in physiology, cardiology, neurology, respiratory medicine, gastroenterology, endocrinology, oncology, immunology, nutrition, and metabolism who research and/or teach gender-specific medicine or sex-based biology. Graduate students and medical fellow trainees in these areas. Specialists and/or general practitioners who treat gender-specific diseases. Together with marketing, we will build a specific tailored message for each specialist group.

Marianne Legato

Affiliations and Expertise

Marianne J. Legato, MD, Professor Emerita of Clinical Medicine, Columbia University College of Medicine, New York, NY; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine, 2nd Edition

Section 1: Gender and Normal Development

Introduction to Pediatrics
George M. Lazarus (section editor)

1. The Effects of Gender in Neonatal Medicine
Tove S. Rosen and David Bateman

2. Sexual Development, Growth and Puberty in Children
Gaya S. Aranoff and Jennifer J. Bell

3. Sex Differences in Pediatric Pulmonary Disease

Beverley J. Sheares

4. Gender-Specific Aspects of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology

James H. Garvin, Jr.

5. Gender Differences in Neurological Conditions of Children
David M. Kaufman


6. Gender and Sports: Past, Present, and Future
Jordan D. Metzl

Section 2: Gender and the Nervous System

Introduction
William Byne (section editor)

7. Gender Differences in the Functional Organization of the Brain

Ruben C. Gur, Tamara Bockow, Raquel E. Gur

8. Sexual Differentiation of Brain Structure and Function

Margret McCarthey

9. The Sexed and Gendered Brain

William Byne

10. Gender Differences in Diseases of the Nervous System

Joan Amatniek , Karin Sorra, Lauren Frey, W. Allen Hauser


11. Gender Differences in Stroke

Rebecca F. Gottsman and Argye E. Hillis


12. Gender Differences in Disorders that Present to Psychiatry

Mary V. Seeman

13. Hormone Replacement Therapy and Cognitive Function

Mary Sano, Diane Jacobs, Katya Gaynor

Section 3: Cardiology

Introduction
Paula A. Johnson (section editor)

14. Gender and the Heart: Sex-Specific Differences in the Normal Myocardial Anatomy and Physiology

Marianne J. Legato and Jaswinder K. Leghe


15. Gender Specific Aspects of Selected Coronary Heart Disease

Shari S. Bassuk and JoAnn E. Manson

 

16. Dyslipidemia Management in Women and Men: Exploring Potential Gender Differences

Roger S. Blumenthal, Kavita Sharma, Christian D. Nagy

17. Gender Differences in the Role of Stress and Emotion in Cardiovascular Function and Disease

Margaret A. Chesney and David E. Anderson

18. The Role of Gender in Cardiothoracic Surgery

Sandhya K. Balaram and Justin D. Blasberg


Section 4: Pulmonology

Introduction
Marilyn Glassberg (section editor)

19. Gender Differences in Asthma
Lester Kobzik and Robert Lim

20. Gender Issues In Venous Thromboembolism

Susan Murin, Kathryn Bilello, Lisa Moores, Aaron Holley

21. Gender-Specific Considerations in Pulmonary Hypertension

Deborah Shure


22. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Kenneth R. Chapman

23. Gender Differences in Susceptibility, Outcomes and Pathophysiology of Sepsis

Kristy A. Phillips and MeiLan K. Han

24. The Gender Specific Aspects of Lung Cancer

Charles A. Powell and Rebecca L. Toonkel

25. Sleep in Women: Sex Differences in Health and Disease

Shirin Shafazand

26. Gender Differences in ILD and Connective Tissue

Marilyn Glassberg and Muddassir Aliniazee

27. ILD and Autoimmune Disease

Marilyn Glassberg and Muddassir Aliniazee

Section 5: Gastroenterology

Introduction

Linda Lee (section editors)

28. Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Females

Mary Harris, Melissa Munsell and Marc Sonenshine

29. Disorders of Defecation in Women

Susan L. Gearhart

30. Idiopathic Gastroparesis: Gender Aspects

Henry Parkman


31. Liver Disease

Ayman Koteish


32. Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Linda Lee, Octavia Pickett-Blakely and Gerald Mullin


Section 6: Reproductive Biology

Introduction
Lauri Romanzi (section editor)

33. Contraception
Karen Feisullin and Carolyn Westhoff

34. Infertility: The Male

Marc Goldstein, Howard H. Kim and Peter N. Schlegel

35. Infertility and In Vitro Fertilization

Elizabeth Barbieri, Sonya Kashyap, and Pak H. Chung

36. Female Sexual Dysfunction

Barbara D. Bartlik , Julie Kozlet

37. Male Sexual Dysfunction

Serkan Deveci, John P. Mulhall


38. Pelvic Pain: Urogenital Female

Andrew T. Goldstein, Lara J. Burrows

39. Lower Urogenital Tract Dysfunction in Men and Women

Doreen E. Chung, Alexis E. Te, Renuka Tyagi

40. Aging and the Lower Urogenital System

Catherine Dubeau


41. Menopause

Gloria Bachmann and Nora J. Doty

Section 7: Oncology

Introduction
Nancy Davidson (section editor)

42. Gender Differences in Hereditary Cancer Syndromes: Risks, Management, and Testing for Inherited Predisposition to Cancer

Wendy K. Chung


43. The Differences Between Male and Female Breast Cancer

CORAL OMENE AND AMY TIERSTEN


44. Difference in Germ Cell Tumors of the Reproductive Tract in Men and Women

Nicole LaNatra and Amy Tiersten


45. Gender-specific aspects of CNS Cancer

Caslida Balmaceda


Section 8: Infectious Disease

Introduction
Michael Rendel (section editor)


46. Gender Differences in Emerging Infectious Diseases
Sharon Lewin

47. Infections In Pregnancy

Bruce Polsky and Emilia Sordillo


48. Adult Immunization in Women and Men

Sally L. Hodder, Debra Chew, Shobha Swaminathan

49. Sexually Transmitted Infections in Men and Women

Anne Rampalo and Khalil Ghanem


Section 9: Immunology and Rheumatology
Introduction
Robert G. Lahita (section editor)

50. Gender Differences in Autoimmune Diseases: Immune Mechanisms and Clinical Applications

Nabih Abdou and Virginia Rider


51. Hormones and Cytokines, Gender Specific Effects

Maurizio Cutolo

52. Prolactin and Autoimmunity

Sara E. Walker

53. Sex Hormone and Immune Function

Robert Lahita

54. Pregnancy and the Influence on Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease

Carl A. Laskin, Christine A. Clark and Karen S. Spitzer

55. Oral Contraceptives in Autoimmune Disease

Michelle Petri and Taraneh Mehrani

56. GENDER SPECIFIC ISSUES IN ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION

Hilary Sanfey


Section 10: Endocrinology and Metabolism

Introduction
Adrian Dobs (section editor)

57. Endogenous Sex Hormones and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Men and Women

Sherita Hill Golden


58. Thyroid Disorders in Pregnancy

Matthew Kim

59. Sexual Function and Dysfunction in Men and Women

Karen E. Boyle and Arthur L. Burnett

60.Osteoporosis

Suzanne Jan De Beur and Kendall Moseley

61. Testosterone Replacement Therapy in Men and Women

Adrian Dobs and Diala El-Maouche

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