Essentials of Menopause Management

Part I. An Overview of the Epidemiology and Symptomatology, and an Update on Existing Strategies to Improve the Quality of Life of Menopausal Women

1. Reproductive Aging: Epidemiology, Symptomatology, and Nomenclature
Satu Kuokkanen, Lubna Pal

2. Five Decades of Hormone Therapy Research: The Long, the Short, and the Inconclusive
Raja Sayegh, Johnny T. Awwad

3. Nonhormonal Pharmacotherapies for Menopause Management
Susan D. Reed

4. Pharmacotherapies for Menopause Management: Hormonal Options
JoAnn V. Pinkerton

5. Management of Menopause and Perimenopause: Integrative Medicine in Support of Wellness
Katherine Gergen Barnett, Marcia Klein-Patel, Judith Balk

Part II. An Inferential and Individualized Approach to Management of Common Menopausal Concerns Through Clinical Vignettes

6. Clinical Management of Menopause-Related Sleep Disturbance
Sarah B. Mathews, C. Neill Epperson

7. Management of Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause (GSM)
Vanessa A. Lukas, James A. Simon

8. Skeletal Fragility, a Common Menopausal Burden: Risk Assessment, Diagnosis, and Management
Michael F. Holick

9. Sexuality, Sexual Dysfunction, and Menopause
Mary Jane Minkin

10. The Case for Androgens in Menopausal Women: When and How?
Grace Huang, Shehzad Basaria

11. Postmenopausal Alopecia (Hair Loss)
Lynne J. Goldberg

12. Evaluation and Management of Hirsutism in Postmenopausal Women
Pinky N. Kurani, Lynne J. Goldberg, Joshua D. Safer

13. Primary Ovarian Insufficiency/Premature Ovarian Failure: Management Considerations and Strategies
Nanette Santoro

14. Surgical Menopause
L. Daniela Michelis, Wendy Kuohung

15. Bothersome Vasomotor Symptoms: Management in Women with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (Case 1) and Differential Diagnostic Considerations (Case 2)
Cynthia A. Stuenkel

Part III. Managing Menopause in Cancer Survivors

16. Pharmacological Therapy for Vasomotor Symptoms in Breast Cancer Survivors
Lindsay P. Bonnett, Xuezhi Jiang, Peter F. Schnatz

17. Hormonal Therapy for Menopausal Symptoms in Gynecologic Cancer Survivors
John Durfee

18. Management of Osteoporosis in Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Survivors
Xuezhi Jiang, Peter F. Schnatz, Risa Kagan

19. Management Strategies for Sexual Health After Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Eve Overton, Erin Hofstatter, Devin Miller, Elena Ratner

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Reproductive Medicine, Gynecology, Endocrinology