Description
This textbook focuses on obstetrics and gynecology, offering comprehensive and up-to-date coverage and an easy-to-use format. It is devoted to safeguarding women's health and all sections and chapters, edited and written by leading experts in the field, highlight prevention, thus reflecting today's approach to the field.
Specifically designed for medical students, the volume is divided into thematic sections including: Basics, Maternal medicine, Periconceptional medicine, Fetal medicine, Labor and delivery, Reproduction, Sexual health, Gynecology, Urogynecology, Gynecologic oncology.
The educational aim is provided by didactical features that help readers to quickly and easily pick out contents: definitions, key messages, tips and tricks, as well as numerous images and videos, together with comprehension/review questions to further aid comprehension.
It is a must-have for medical students as well as a valuable tool for residents in obstetricsand gynecology and for all professionals and practitioners who deal with women's healthcare.
Basics.- Maternal medicine.- Periconceptional medicine.- Fetal medicine.- Labor and delivery.- Reproduction.- Sexual health.- Gynecology.- Urogynecology.- Gynecologic oncology.- Miscellanea.
Prof. Gian Carlo Di Renzo is honorary secretary of FIGO, and professor and chair at the University of Perugia (UOP) in Italy. He is director of both the Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine Center and the Midwifery School at UOP. He is also director of the Permanent International and European School of Perinatal and Reproductive Medicine (PREIS) in Florence. He holds multiple other positions including founder & editor-in-chief of the Journal of Maternal Fetal and Neonatal Medicine based in London and corresponding editor of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He is an advisory board member for the March of Dimes Foundation based in New York. Further, he is a fellow ad eundem of RCOG and an honorary fellow of American COG and Indian COG. Prof. Di Renzo is an honorary professor and doctor honoris causa at 15 different Universities throughout Europe, South America and the United States. He is an academic member of the Romanian and Russian Academy of Sciences. Prof. DiRenzo has received six international awards for his work in human reproduction and maternal-infant health, scientific research, and teaching. He has written over 1,200 papers of which more than 350 have been published in peer reviewed international journals and 80 books. He has been an invited speaker at over 1,500 national and international congresses and meetings and in academic courses in over 100 countries.
