A. Wayne Meikle and a distinguished panel of expert clinicians bring to bear their extensive knowledge and experience in managing adults and children undergoing hormone replacement therapy for the pituitary, parathyroid, thyroid, pancreas, adrenal glands, and gonads. Emphasizing proper patient management, the book provides to specialists and general practitioners alike time-tested, cutting-edge guidelines on the use, monitoring, and dosage of hormone therapeutics in the treatment of disorders of endocrine function, while giving an exhaustive analysis of each therapy. Comprehensive and eminently practical, Hormone Replacement Therapy captures the most recent advances in hormone replacement therapeutics and is certain to serve endocrinologists, gynecologists, pediatricians, urologists, internists, and family practitioners as today's standard reference for managing and monitoring their patients.

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Part I. Pituitary. Diabetes Insipidus in Pediatrics, Donald Zimmerman and Greg Uramoto. Treatment of Diabetes Insipidus in Adults, Andjela T. Drincic and Gary L. Robertson. Growth Hormone Therapy in Children, Catherine K. Lum and Darrell M. Wilson. Growth Hormone and Growth Hormone Secretagogues in Adults, David E. Cummings and George R. Merriam. Part II. Parathyroid and Vitamin D. Parathyroid Hormone and Vitamin D Replacement Therapy, Robert F. Klein, Michael Bliziotes, and Eric S. Orwoll. Part III. Thyroid. Thyroid Hormone Replacement Therapy for Primary and Secondary Hypothyroidism, David S. Cooper. Thyroid Hormone Replacement During Pregnancy, Jorge H. Mestman. Part IV. Diabetes. Insulin Management of Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus, R. Philip Eaton and Martin Conway. Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, David G. Johnson and Rubin Bressler. Management of Diabetes in Pregnancy, Kay F. McFarland and Laura S. Irwin. An Algorithm for Diabetes Management During Glucocorticoid Therapy of Nonendocrine Disease, Susan S. Braithwaite, Walter G. Barr, Amer Rahman, and Shaista Quddusi. Management of the Exercising Diabetic, Robert E. Jones. Part V. Adrenal. Glucocorticoids For Postnatal Treatment of Adrenal Insufficiency and For the Prenatal Treatment of Congential Adrenal Hyperplasia, Lynnette K. Nieman and Kristina I. Rother. Mineralocorticoid Deficiency Syndromes, W. Reid Litchfield and Robert G. Dluhy. Dehydroepiandrosterone and Pregnenolone, Rakhmawati Sih, Hosam Kamel, Mohamad Horani, and John E. Morley. Part VI. Gonadal. Androgen Replacement Therapy of Male Hypogonadism, A. Wayne Meikle. Androgen Replacement: Sexual Behavior, Affect, and Cognition, Max Hirshkowitz, Claudia Orengo, and Glenn R. Cunningham. Testosterone and the Older Man, J. Lisa Tenover. Applications of Androgen Therapy for Muscle Wasting Associated with Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infection and Other Chronic Diseases, Shalender Bhasin and Marjan Javanbakht. Hormonal Male Contraception, Christina Wang and Ronald S. Swerdloff. Part VII. Women. Primary and Secondary Hypogonadism in Women, C. Matthew Peterson and Lawrence C. Udoff. Androgen Replacement in Women, Susan R. Davis and Henry G. Burger. Index.