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The Expert Guide to Fertility

Boost Your Chances for Pregnancy

Joseph S. Sanfilippo, MD, MBA
with Aarti Kumar, MD

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The essential guide to understanding fertility and improving your pregnancy chances.

The journey to fertility can be daunting and filled with obstacles. In The Expert Guide to Fertility, OB-GYNs Joseph S. Sanfilippo, MD, MBA, and Aarti Kumar, MD, offer the information you need in your journey to achieve pregnancy. They provide an overview of the human reproductive system, describe issues that may impede conception, and explain various medical, surgical, and lifestyle interventions shown to improve one's chances of becoming pregnant.

This guide provides multiple options for readers, rather than...

The essential guide to understanding fertility and improving your pregnancy chances.

The journey to fertility can be daunting and filled with obstacles. In The Expert Guide to Fertility, OB-GYNs Joseph S. Sanfilippo, MD, MBA, and Aarti Kumar, MD, offer the information you need in your journey to achieve pregnancy. They provide an overview of the human reproductive system, describe issues that may impede conception, and explain various medical, surgical, and lifestyle interventions shown to improve one's chances of becoming pregnant.

This guide provides multiple options for readers, rather than one-size-fits-all recommendations. Sanfilippo and Kumar offer important information on:

• A broad variety of assisted reproductive technologies, including in vitro fertilization
• Diagnostic tests and what to expect throughout your fertility journey
• Fertility-preserving options for people diagnosed with cancer and people with recurrent miscarriages, polycystic ovaries, a low egg supply, or endometriosis
• Fertility options for LGBTQ readers, single parents, and military personnel
• Adoption, egg and sperm donation, and egg freezing procedures
• Financing options and tips for working with health care insurers

The Expert Guide to Fertility is your one-stop shop for everything you need to know about getting pregnant.

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I recommend this book to patients and their families. The content is evidence-based and includes up-to-date diagnostic and treatment modalities.

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240
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9781421447063
Illustration Description
8 halftones, 24 line drawings
Table of Contents

Preface
1. Christie's Story: A Personal Infertility Experience
2. Enhancing Our Chances: Optimizing Natural Fertility
3. Against All Odds: Female Infertility
4. We're Part of It Too: Male Infertility
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Preface
1. Christie's Story: A Personal Infertility Experience
2. Enhancing Our Chances: Optimizing Natural Fertility
3. Against All Odds: Female Infertility
4. We're Part of It Too: Male Infertility
5. The Embryo Just Won't Stick: Reproductive Immunology
6. Not Tonight, Wait till Ovulation: Sexual Dysfunction
7. No Periods for Me: Amenorrhea
8. I Just Can't Stop Bleeding: Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding
9. Painful Periods, Nobody's Listening: Endometriosis
10. Acne, I'm Hairy and I Just Can't Get Pregnant: Polycystic Ovaries
11. No Room for the Fetus: Uterine Fibroids
12. Too Little, Too Early: Miscarriages
13. Wrong Place, Painful Conception: Ectopic Pregnancy
14. Help is Here: Assisted Reproductive Technology (IVF)
15. Keep My Eggs Ripe: Social Egg Freezing
16. Cancer Can't Stop Me: Fertility Preservation
17. Building a Non-Traditional Family: LGBTQ Fertility Options
18. Building a Family While Serving the Nation: Navigating Military Fertility Services
19. Help Me Preserve My Sanity: Stress, Does it Cause a Problem and How to Manage it
20. How to Pay for it All: Financing the Infertility Journey
21. The Nontraditional Conception: Donor Insemination, Adopting Donor Embryos and Beyond
22. The End is in Sight: You are Pregnant, What's Next?
Appendix
Bibliography
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Index

Author Bios
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Joseph S. Sanfilippo, MD, MBA

Joseph S. Sanfilippo, MD, MBA (PITTSBURGH, PA), is a tenured professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences and the vice chairman of reproductive sciences at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he is the director of the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Fellowship training program. He is also the past president of the American Society for Reproductive...
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Aarti Kumar, MD

Aarti Kumar, MD (NEW YORK, NY), is a resident physician at New York University Langone Health in obstetrics and gynecology.