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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I Pituitary.- 1 Diabetes Insipidus in Pediatrics.- 2 Treatment of Diabetes Insipidus in Adults.- 3 Growth Hormone Therapy in Children.- 4 Growth Hormone and Growth Hormone Secretagogues in Adults.- II Parathyroid and Vitamin D.- 5 Parathyroid Hormone and Vitamin D Replacement Therapy.- III Thyroid.- 6 Thyroid Hormone Replacement Therapy for Primary and Secondary Hypothyroidism.- 7 Thyroid Hormone Replacement During Pregnancy.- IV Diabetes.- 8 Insulin Management of Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus: Core Concepts of Insulin Management.- 9 Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.- 10 Management of Diabetes in Pregnancy.- 11 An Algorithm for Diabetes Management During Glucocorticoid Therapy of Nonendocrine Disease.- 12 Management of the Exercising Diabetic.- V Adrenal.- 13 Glucocorticoids for Postnatal Treatment of Adrenal Insufficiency and for the Prenatal Treatment of Congential Adrenal Hyperplasia.- 14 Mineralocorticoid Deficiency Syndromes.- 15 Dehydroepiandrosterone and Pregnenolone.- VI Gonadal.- 16 Androgen Replacement Therapy of Male Hypogonadism.- 17 Androgen Replacement: Sexual Behavior, Affect, and Cognition.- 18 Testosterone and the Older Man.- 19 Applications of Androgen Therapy for Muscle Wasting Associated with Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infection and Other Chronic Diseases.- 20 Hormonal Male Contraception.- VII Women.- 21 Primary and Secondary Hypogonadism in Women.- 22 Androgen Replacement in Women.