Hardcover, 160 pages
261 x 194 mm page size
171 colour and b/w illustrations
ISBN: 978-1-84076-069-9
Price £40.00
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William
J. Ledger, MD
Obstetrician and Gynaecologist in Chief, New York Weill Cornell
Center, New York, USA.
Steven
S. Witkin, MD
Director - Division of Infection and Immunity, New York Weill Center,
New York, USA.
In
gynaecological practice one third of patient complaints involve
vulvo-vaginal infections. This book aims to help the practitioner
towards accurate diagnosis, and provides suggestions for appropriate
patient care that will avoid ineffective treatments and thus ongoing
discomfort for the patient.
To avoid misdiagnoses the authors outline the correct testing and
screening processes that should be used. Two sections of therapy
follow: the first outlines the standard accepted modes of therapy,
and the second is for patients who fail to respond to the medication
prescribed, or who respond and then become symptomatic again after
the treatment has ended.
This book will be useful to Gynaecologists in practice and in training,
and for Physicians working in emergency departments, outpatient
clinics and general practice.
Contents: Preface, Section 1: Scientific Basis for the Care
of Women with Vulvo Vaginitis, 1. Microbiology of the Vagina, 2,
Vaginal immunology, 3. Diagnosis of Vulvovaginal disease. Section
2: Vulvo-Vaginal Infections, 4. Candida Vulvovaginitis , 5. Bacterial
vaginosis, 6. Trichomonas vaginalis vaginitis, 7. Desquamative Inflammatory
vaginitis, 8. Genital herpes, 9. Human papilloma virus, 10. Other
sexually transmitted diseases, 11. Staphylococcus aureus and group
A streptococcal infections of the vagina and vulva. Section 3: Non-Infectious
Vulvo-Vaginitis, 12. Allergic vulvovaginitis, 13. Menopausal vulvovaginitis,
14. Vulvodynia, 15. Dermatologic conditions causing vulvo-vaginitis.
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