Deshmukh, an obstetrician-gynecologist in India, brings together obstetrics, gynecology, fertility, endocrinology, maternity, and urology specialists from India, Egypt, and Singapore for 25 chapters on infertility management. They describe the categorization of patients, initial work-up and diagnosis, the use of transvaginal sonography for assessment, semen analysis, graphical evaluation of the fallopian tubes and uterus, fallopian tube recanalization, endoscopy and laparoscopy, anovulation, polycystic ovarian syndrome, ovulation induction, new drugs, thyroid and hyperprolactinemia in infertility, the role of endometriosis, the luteal phase defect in infertility, unexplained infertility, pelvic inflammatory disease, fibroids, cervical factors, the evaluation and treatment of male infertility, intrauterine insemination, and assisted reproductive technology. The two CDs contain videos of diagnostic hysteroscopy, the removal of polyps, and hysteroscopic excision of an adhesive fibrotic band. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
