The Menopause

Climacteric disorders - historical perspectives; symptoms of oestrogen deficiency; the hot flush; psychiatric aspects of the climacteric; psychological aspects of the climacteric and postmenopause; sexuality; oestrogens and lower urinary tract function; skin and the menopause; the non-hormonal management of the menopause; selection of patients for treatment - which therapy and for how long?; potency of different oestrogen preparations; routes or oestrogen administration; sex steroids and calcium metabolism; pathogenesis, detection and prevention of postmenopausal osteoporosis; ovarian hormones and plasma lipoproteins; hypertension and thrombosis with postmenopausal oestrogen therapy; the menopause, hormone replacement therapy and cardiovascular disease - epidemiological aspects; oestrogen therapy and endometrial pathology; the effect of oestrogens and progestogens on endometrial biochemistry; demonstration of oestrogen receptor related protein in female tissues; oestrogens, progestogens and the breast; studies of endometrial and breast disease with hormone replacement therapy; analysis of hormone replacement therapy; the premenstrual syndrome - a review; contraception in the woman over 40.