FALLOPIAN TUBE: PHYSIOLOGY AND CLINICAL ASPECTS

This volume presents a fully comprehensive update of fallopian tube physiology and provides a practical guide to the clinical aspects related to them. The first part of the book consists of chapters on basic science of the fallopian tubes, which explain how specific aspects relate to infertility and contraception. In the second half, assessment of tubal function, conditions that compromise tubal function, surgical and non-surgical management approaches to various types of tubal pathology, fertility control (contraception) and future aspects of tubal research are covered in chapters written by world-renowned experts in these fields. The last decade has seen significant advances in the study of tubal physiology using novel methods, and our understanding of the involvement of fallopian tubes in the development of ovarian cancer has changed fundamentally. At the same time success rates of IVF have improved significantly, with the aid of better understanding of tubal function. Fallopian Tube: Physiology and Clinical Aspects will thus be of tremendous interest and utility to both basic scientists and clinicians who are involved in the management of infertility and contraception.

Contents:

• Fallopian Tubes and Tubal Surgery — Historical Aspects (Victor Gomel)
• Anatomy, Histology and Embryology of the Fallopian Tube (Elif Kervancıoğlu Demirci, Seyhun Solakoğlu)
• Ciliary Function and Dysfunction in the Fallopian Tube (Rachel Lyons)
• Gamete and Embryo Transport and Interaction with Tubal Epithelium (M Ertan Kervancıoğlu, Ertan Sarıdoğan)
• Importance of Tubal Environment (M Ertan Kervancıoğlu, Ertan Sarıdoğan)
• Hormonal Control of the Fallopian Tube (Philip J Dutton, Alison J Maclean, Fatima Aljassim, Dania Badran, Abbie McKinley, Eve Bunni, Christopher J Hill, Dharani K Hapangama)
• Assessment of Tubal Patency: Historical Aspects (Zoran Sretenović, Marta Savić, Dragutin Sretenović)
• Assessment of Patency of Fallopian Tube: Imaging (Kamal Ojha, Litha Pepas, Arpan Chatterjee)
• Assessment of Tubal Patency and Function: Endoscopy (Stephan Gordts, Antoine Watrelot)
• Fallopian Tube and Infection (Jonathan Ross)
• Endometriosis and the Fallopian Tube: Pathogenesis and Clinical Implications (Mohsen Mahmoud El-Sayed, Ertan Sarıdoğan)
• Fertility Promoting Surgery for Tubal Pathology (Themistoklis Mikos, Maria Tsoukaki, Grigoris F Grimbizis)
• Hydrosalpinx and Fertility (Ka Ying Bonnie Ng, Ying Cheong)
• Ectopic Pregnancy (Krystle Y Chong, Andrew W Horne)
• Tubal Sterilisation (Sebastiaan Veersema, Andreas L Thurkow, Lotte Clevin)
• Reversal of Tubal Sterilisation (Ashwin Kalra, Samuel Oxley, Ranjit Manchanda)
• Fallopian Tube and Ovarian Cancer (Ashwin Kalra, Samuel Oxley, Ranjit Manchanda)
• The Fallopian Tube: From the Known to the Unknown (Ovrang Djahanbakhch)

Readership: Obstetricians and gynaecologists, embryologists, surgeons and clinicians who are involved in the management of infertility and contraception. Academics and researchers in these fields, as well as senior-year medical students.