Based on procedures developed and used at the Boston IVF fertility center, this handbook offers a detailed overview of all aspects of infertility and its treatment, from causes of infertility and preconception care to insurance and coding issues. Chapters cover the work-up, infertility treatment options, success rates of infertility treatment, clomiphene citrate, progesterone therapy, and methotrexate therapy, as well as consent forms, counseling, and educational resources. Readership for this book includes gynecologists, reproductive endocrinologists, and infertility nurses. The editors are affiliated with the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Much-anticipated, filled with in-depth and detailed information, the Boston IVF Handbook on Infertility: A Practical Guide for Practitioners Who Care for Infertile Couples is the premier resource in this field. Based on the gold-standard procedures developed and used at Boston IVF it presents information you will find in no other text on infertility that cover the subject with the scope that this one does.
Authors Drs. Bayer, Alper, and Penzias, principal physicians at Boston IVF, have written The Boston IVF Handbook on Infertility specifically for obstetricians and gynecologists, reproductive endocrinologists and infertility nurses. They include a special chapter on preconception care to help gynecologists caring not only for infertile patients but also caring for couples contemplating a pregnancy. In addition to clinical algorithms, history and consent forms and insurance and coding issues, the main chapters cover the work-up, treatment options, success rates, clomiphene citrate, progesterone therapy, methotrexate, counseling, and educational resources.
With the publication of this authoritative, one-of-a-kind volume you will have a comprehensive guide to the important tools designed by the specialists at Boston IVF to aid in the day-to-day management of infertile patients and couples considering pregnancy. It is practical, easy to use, and unquestionably the premier work in its field.
Affiliated with Harvard Medical School, the Boston IVF at The Waltham Center in Waltham, Massachusetts, is a highly specialized outpatient fertility and in vitro fertilization center recognized as a leader in providing fertility services for couples around the world.
