(Ebook) Infertility in Practice by Adam H. Balen ISBN 9780367557447, 9780367557454, 9782022022574, 2022022572, 0367557444, 0367557452, 2022022573

(Ebook) Infertility in Practice by Adam H. Balen ISBN 9780367557447, 9780367557454, 9782022022574, 2022022572, 0367557444, 0367557452, 2022022573

I am pleased to present the fifth edition of Infertility in Practice, which has been updated every 5 years or so since it was first published in 1997. Throughout this time, our understanding of infertility and its management has continued to expand rapidly. Infertility in Practice has been written as a practical guide and is based on my experience over the last 40 years of daily clinical practice. The aim of the book is to place the modern approach to the management of infertility in the context of sound theory and evidence-based therapy. I have striven to provide the reader with a comprehensive classification of the causes of infertility, their investigation and their management. In this edition, I have thoroughly revised and updated the text and completely rewritten most of the chapters.This fifth edition of Infertility in Practice has been written during the global Covid-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (discussed in Chapter 1). This is still evolving and there are many unknowns about the long-term effects of the virus, not only on population dynamics but also on fertility and pregnancy. We have all experienced the effects of the pandemic on our health services and also on our ability to provide fertility treatments when clinical resources, and personnel, have been so stretched. A global vaccination programme is the way forward, and I can only hope that we will be through these dark times by the time the sixth edition is being published.