The Endometrial Factor: A Reproductive Precision Medicine Approach

Description:

At the dawn of precision medicine, there is a new opportunity for novel approaches to understand, diagnose and treat endometrial disorders that affect fertility, reproductive outcomes, and women’s health more broadly. Herein, the editors have assembled critically evaluated state-of-the-art chapters presenting basic and clinical knowledge about the human endometrium that impacts or will impact clinical practice. All clinicians and researchers in Reproductive Medicine will find this book useful as a reference and a valuable tool for continued advancement in the understanding and management of the "endometrial factor".

Table of Contents:

1. Highlights on the dynamism and multifunctionality of human endometrium in the era of precision medicine

Section I: Diagnosis of the Endometrial Factor

2. New imaging diagnostics

3. Molecular diagnosis of endometrial receptivity

4. Molecular diagnosis of endometriosis

5. Microbiological diagnosis: The human endometrial microbiome—Endometritis

6. Hysteroscopy: An invasive diagnosis

Section II: Personalization of the Endometrial Factor

7. The endometrium in polycystic ovary syndrome

8. Obesity and the endometrium

9. Uterine fibroids and the endometrium

10. New knowledge about adenomyosis

Section III: Therapeutic Options of the Endometrial Factor

11. Hormonal regulation of the endometrium and the effects of hormonal therapies

12. Abnormal uterine bleeding (the old dysfunctional uterine bleeding): How to manage?

13. Inflammation of the endometrium in reproduction

14. Empirical treatments to improve receptivity: Why not?

15. Endometrial scratching

16. Stem cell therapies for atrophic endometrium and Asherman’s syndrome

17. Gestational surrogacy

18. Uterine transplantation

Section IV: The Ultimate Goal

19. Embryo/fetal–maternal cross talk

20. Embryo transfer: Fresh, deferred, personalized? Reproductive and obstetrical outcomes

Index