Books on endometriosis and infertility

by David Redwine

"100 Questions and Answers on Endometriosis" encourages the reader to question and challenge non-validated assumptions about the treatment of the disease, and it provides straight forward answers to 100 questions about endometriosis.

The author, surgeon David Redwine MD FACOG, provides provocative answer and statements, which challenges the reader to to question current assumtions about endometriosis.

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TECHNOSTORKS takes the viewer along on the rollercoaster journey of three (real life) couples who face infertility and assisted reproductive technologies.

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by Thomas Lyons MD and Cheryl Kimball

Easy to understand advice on easing the pain of endometriosis.
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Endometriosis: a key to healing through nutrition

by Michael Vernon and Dian Shepperson Mills

Research has shown that certain nutritional changes can alleviate symptoms in some women with endo. This book is an excellent resource to help you begin making changes in your diet. The authors show how the right diet can provide the key to optimum health in overcoming endometriosis. Includes delicious recipes, and details the orthodox and complementary treatments available.

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Explaining Endometriosis

by Lorraine Henderson and Ros Wood 

The book has been written so that women with endometriosis can have clear and accurate information about endometriosis and its treatments. As with the first edition, the main focus has been on providing comprehensive but easy-to-understand information that will enable women to make well-informed decisions about the management of their endometriosis.

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Endometriosis and other pelvic pain

by Dr Susan Evans

This easy to read book explains all the current treatment options and choices for endometriosis to help you get actively involved in deciding the best treatment for your particular pain. It offers guidance on how to choose a gynaecologist and how to prepare for your first consultation.

This book also provides practical advice on pelvic pain caused by an irritable bowel, bladder, bloating, constipation, pelvic nerves, adhesions, ovaries, and muscles.

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by Kerry-Ann Morris

In September 2002, the Unveiling Endometriosis Project invited women from across the world to participate in a new patient-oriented book about endometriosis, initially titled "Unveiling Endometriosis: Revealing the Faces Behind the Pain."

Hundreds of women responded to the call and the result is a book that looks on life with endometriosis from the woman's perspective.

The books both convential and "alternative" aspects to the treatment of endometriosis.

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by Masood Khatamee and Linda Perelman Pohl

This book describes Linda Pohl's struggle with infertility, due to endometriosis, and the doctors she saw in pursuit of identifying and treating her problem. It provides a humanistic, touching story of a couple longing to have a baby, and what they learnt: that the success and failure of each couple's ability to conceive is often dependent on the doctor that they choose.

This book offers options and resources for those who are dealing with infertility along with multiple "ask the experts" sections, including a chart that details specific steps to tell if your doctor is listening to you. The authors hope this book will empower those who are embarking on the journey of having a baby through assisted reproduction.

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por La Asociación Endometriosis Espana

Se ha presentado el libro endometriosis en el transcurso de la Semana Internacional de la Endometriosis, celebrada en el mes de marzo. Se ha realizado una rueda de prensa con una nutrida representación de medios de comunicación de Radio, TV y prensa escrita donde se ha informado de la aparición de este texto, el primer libro monográfico sobre la enfermedad en castellano con la nueva linea de terapia multidisziplanrio, esrcrito por varios espezilaistas de endometriosis y se ha explicado la problemática de las mujeres afectadas por endometriosis.

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The Patient's Essential Guide to Endometriosis

by Stephen Kennedy MA MD MRCOG

The Patient's Essential Guide to Endometriosis is much more than just another book about endometriosis. In a completely revolutionary way, it provides patients with state-of-the-art information to enable them to make informed decisions about treatment.

The book’s unique format as a digital publication with this accompanying web-site allows the reader to be kept thoroughly up-to-date in a way that has never been possible before. The book, both in printed form and on the web, will be revised every six months on the basis of new developments in research and feed-back from patients.

Limited access to the book is available to members of the general public, along with an opportunity to order a printed copy of the book and a subscription to the full site. On the full site you will find more digital images, links to other sites of interest, FAQs and an opportunity to provide feedback which will influence how the book and the web-site are revised in the future.

by Carmen Martinez Jover

This beautifully illustrated book is intended as a tool for parents, who have conceived through egg donation. It enables them to explain to their child its origin in an easy manner, through the story of a happy couple of rabbits, Pally and Comet who have everything in life except a baby bunny.

The book is very colourful and ideal for children even before they can read, because the pictures are so full of details it easily captures the child’s attention.

This book is also available in Spanish.

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by Glynis D Wallace

The author wrote this book to share information and enlighten the nation about pulmonary endometriosis, where endometrial implants appear on the lung like chocolate cysts and release blood between the lung and its lining, which is known as the pleura. A flow of blood, occurring on the lung every month is a phenomenon known as catamenial hemopneumothorax. This happens when endometriosis attaches to the lung, releases fluid, and allows air to move in by an unknown mechanism—all of which causes the lung to collapse.

This book outlines Glynis Wallace's 13-year experience with pulmonary endometriosis through narrative summaries from the physicians who attempted to control this disease.

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Endometriosis: the complete reference for taking charge of your health

by Mary Lou Ballweg and the Endometriosis Association

If you are using any of the Endometriosis Association’s publications: The Endometriosis Sourcebook or Overcoming Endometriosis as your single source of information on endometriosis and its management, get ready to meet their companion volume: Endometriosis: The Complete Reference for Taking Charge of Your Health.

This authoritative guide contains cutting edge information on treatments and lifestyle changes that give women with endometriosis and their families the tools they need to successfully manage the disease. The book contains groundbreaking new discoveries on endometriosis and its relationship to immune problems, cancer, and other poorly understood diseases. Up-to-date and comprehensive information is provided on many aspects of the disease, including endometriosis after menopause, preventing endometriosis, avoiding environmental triggers, and road maps through the treatment maze.

Endometriosis: the inside story

by Belle Browne and Monica Flores

This video shows us that we are not alone with this diease and that no one has to suffer in silence. Belle and Monica have done a wonderful job showing the world how it is to live with endometriosis - and how to get help managing it. Honest, educational, empowering and full of the latest information, no patient or doctor who treats this insidious disease should be without a copy of this video.

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by Mary Lou Ballweg and the Endometriosis Association.

The Endometriosis Sourcebook is almost 500 pages of the information that women with endo most want to know. It is the most comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date resource on endo available. It’s also very personal, drawing on the words of Association members to bring home the impact that endometriosis has on real women. Includes information about treatment options, strategies for coping with the disease and its effects on you and those around you, and the latest research findings—as well as the adventures of “Joe with Endo,” from Association president Mary Lou Ballweg’s popular cartoon strip.

by Michael Dooley FRCOG and Sarah Stacey

This well referenced book truly understands the menopause, and is both intelligent and encouraging. It takes you through an integrated approach to feeling and looking good through the menopause (whether "natural" or "surgically/medically" induced), and provides lots of answers on how to tackle this whole change of life.

Written as a reference book, you will not only learn about what it is that is going on in your life at this time, but also how to solve menopausal symptoms, whether through HRT or through complementary therapies such as diet/nutrition, exercise, yoga etc.

The book also discusses the challenges of osteoporosis, breast cancer, heart disease - and how to grow old gorgeously!

por Mary Lou Ballweg and the Endometriosis Association
traducción preliminar por Q.F.B. Maria Teresa Aguilar
versión final por Doctor Luis Carlos Páez Lobeira
prólogo del doctor Dan Martin

Escrito por mujeres para mujeres, Endometriosis: Libro de consulta (Trillas, 2004) combata los mitos con hechos y suminstra el apoyo necesario. Es un libro para los que buscan a información presiza sobre esta enfermedad crónica. Incluye: tratamientos de cirrugia, medicina médica y alternativa, investigaciones más recientes, embarazo parto y experiencias posparto, estrategias físicas y emocionales, y casos reales inspiradores.

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by Carmen Martinéz Jover

This beautiful book of paintings tells Carmen's story of her struggle to become a mother.

In a clear and sincere way, Carmen presents her autobiography of infertility. After a constant struggle with doctors and syringes, the author decides to paint chairs as a way of relief; chairs that express each one of her longings, each moment of sadnes, each situation of powerlessness, as well as that of sharing with her partner the frustrations which infertility brings to a partnership.

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por Carmen Martinéz Jover

De forma clara, sincera y transparente, en su autobiografía, Carmen, presenta la problemática de la infertilidad representándola con imágenes de sus cuadros.

Después de relatar la lucha constante entre médicos y jeringas, la autora decide plasmar, como un desahogo, en cada una de sus pinturas, sillas que expresan cada uno de esos anhelos, cada momento de tristeza, cada situación de impotencia, así como la de compartir con su pareja, la frustración que conlleva este tipo de situaciones y concluye con un hermoso aprendizaje demostrando que siempre hay un futuro y un “porqué” de las cosas aunque en un inicio no encontremos la respuesta.

Se siente como la autora va cayendo emocionalmente, hasta tocar fondo y se levanta como una nueva persona, más grande y fuerte espiritualmente, convirtiendo una pesadilla, en su fuerza y motivación actual. Se perciben dos personas diferentes, una antes y una después marcada por la línea de la infertilidad. El libro es sencillo, hermoso y enriquecedor.

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by Karen Steward

This book is author Karen Steward's account of her daughter Melissa's 14-year battle with ARD: Adhesion Related Disorder. It is about a mother and daughter's fearless battle against impossible odds, and their final triumph over an agonizing hidden illness. This book aims to highlight the difficulties of adhesions with the hope that those who are ill will no longer have to suffer.

This book is written to inspire the reader to continue to seek help, and to inspire, educate and provide hope, along with shattering the silence that surrounds Adhesion Related Disorder.

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edited by Christopher Sutton, Kevin Jones and G David Adamson

This book, written by an internationally recognised team of experts, covers the full range of surgical and medical interventions for diagnosing and treating endometriosis. It will help gynaecologists refine their operative technique and consider new approaches to this highly challenging disease.

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edited by David Olive MD

This colour illustrated project brings together 37 international experts to demonstrate what is known about endometriosis and the clinical implications for the woman suffering from the disease.

In a series of well-laid out chapters, the contributors work their way through the pathogenesis of endometriosis, its theories and the underlying biology, symptoms, diagnosis, health status of women with the disease, through to current clinical treatment options. It does not leave out hope at the end for future directions into improved diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis.

This book provides an up to date "status quo" on endometriosis for both scientists and clinicians.

edited by David Redwine MD

This beautifully illustrated monograph brings together respected authorities on the surgical management of endometriosis, a condition of increasing concern to gynaecologists internationally. The editor has been closely associated with the development of many of the laparoscopic techniques used around the world for the surgical management of endometriosis.
Chapters include:

Was Sampson Wrong?
Modern Medical Therapy for Endometriosis
Excision with the Carbon Dioxide Laser
Intestinal Endometriosis
Diaphragmatic Endometriosis
....and more

Surgical Management of Endometriosis helps the reader to determine which type of surgical treatment most effectively eradicates the disease.

by Rodolphe Maheux

This is a comprehensive guide that belongs on the desk of every practicing health care professional. The handbook is designed to help physicians steer their female patients successfully through the reproductive cycle from adolescence through menopause, providing straightforward answers to the questions women most often ask their doctors, including issue surrounding pelvic pain and endometriosis.

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edited by Ivo Brosens

New technologies, developing at an unbelievable pace, have profoundly changed many areas of reproductive medicine including fertility control, infertility treatment, embryology, prenatal diagnosis and foetal surgery.

However, contraceptive techniques, assisted reproductive technologies, preimplantation genetic diagnosis and embryonic stem cell research are deeply dividing Catholic universities around the world.  Is modern reproductive medicine based on personalist ethics and practiced at progressive Catholic universities compatible with the Catholic doctrine?

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edited by Nutain Jain MD

This highly acclaimed book is the first of its kind. The book contains 1300 colour and 75 black and white illustrations, which covers all established and newer applications of endoscopic surgery and gynaecology. 71 internationally renowned experts have authored each one of these chapters which make the book of internationally repute. The book is divided into 10 sections which include
51 chapters. The sections covered are:

1. General
2. Management of adnexal masses
3. Endometriosis
4. Infertility
5. Hysterectomy
6. Pelvic floor repair
7. Special
8. Hysteroscopy
9. Complications in endoscopic surgery

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edited by Togas Tulandi and David Redwine

Dedicated to new developments in the medical and surgical treatment of endometriosis, this reference delves into current management controversies, examines emerging therapeutic strategies, and assists specialists in the design of new investigations and research paths for the study of endometriosis.

edited by Andre Lemay and Rodolphe Maheux

The Proceedings of the 6th World Congress on Endometriosis, 1998, Quebec, Canada.

This is a detailed, comprehensive reference on the latest developments in the ethiopathogeny and management of endometriosis. The book contains 39 chapter in eleven sections on physiopathology, clinical diagnosis, histopathology, immune dysfunction, tissue remodeling, angiogenesis, treatment of associated infertility, laparoscopy, pain and deep lesions, GnRH agonist therapies, the place of oral contraceptives, and recurrent endometriosis. Includes bibliographic references and index.

by C Overton, L MacMillan, C Davis, and RW Shaw

This new edition of the highly acclaimed colour atlas aims to provide the clinician with an updated overview of endometriosis with emphasis on the key developments of recent years.

by Botros Rizk and Hossam Abdalla

The second edition of this book will keep physicians up to date with best practice on endometriosis.
These two experts focus not only on the physical pain and suffering, which endometriosis causes, but also the psychological impact brought on by mis-diagnosis, delays and treatment failures. In this book, diagnosis and management for this complex and prevalent disease is discussed.

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