Table of Contents

 

 

 

 

Contributors

xi

Foreword

Gender-Specific Medicine - Environment and Biology   Marek Glezerman

xvii

 

Preface   Marianne J. Legalo

xxi

SECTION 1

GENDER AND NORMAL DEVELOPMENT

 

 

Introduction   George M. Lazarus

2

Chapter 1

The Effects of Gender in Neonatal Medicine   Tove S. Rosen, and David Baleman

3

Chapter 2

Sexual Development, Growth, and Puberty in Children   Gaya S. Aranoff, and Jennifer J. Bell

18

Chapter 3

Gender Differences in Pediatric Pulmonary Disease   Beverley J. Shcares

35

Chapter 4

Gender-Specific Aspects of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology   James H. Garvin, Jr

51

Chapter 5

Gender Differences in Neurological Conditions of Children   David M. Kaufman

62

Chapter 6

Gender and Sports: Past, Present, and Future   Jordan D. Metzl

67

SECTION 2

GENDER AND THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

 

 

Introduction   William Byne

74

Chapter 7

Gender Differences in the Functional Organization of the Brain   Ruben C. Gur, Tamara Bockow, and Raquel E. Gur

75

Chapter 8

Sexual Differentiation of Brain Structure and Function   Margaret M. McCarthy

87

Chapter 9

The Sexed and Gendered Brain   William Byne

101

Chapter 10

Age and Gender-Specific Patterns of Neurologic Illness   Joan Amatniek, Karin Sorra, Lauren Frey, and W. Allen Hauscr

113

Chapter 11

Gender Differences in Stroke   Rebecca R. Gottesman, and Argye E. Hillis

129

Chapter 12

Gender Differences in Disorders that Present to Psychiatry   Mary V. Seeman

136

Chapter 13

Hormone Replacement Therapy and Cognitive Function   Mary Sano, Diane Jacobs, and Katya Gaynor

142

SECTION 3

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

 

 

Introduction   Paula A. Johnson

150

Chapter 14

Gender and the Heart: Sex-Specific Differences in the Normal Myocardial Anatomy and Physiology   Marianne J. Legato, and Jaswinder K. Leghe

151

Chapter 15

Gender-Specific Aspects of Selected Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors: A Summary of the Epidemiologic Evidence   Shari S. Bassuk, and Joann E. Manson

162

Chapter 16

Dyslipidemia Management in Women and Men: Exploring Potential Gender Differences   Kavita Sharma, Christian D. Nagy, and Roger S. Blumenthal

175

Chapter 17

Gender Differences in the Role of Stress and Emotion in Cardiovascular Function and Disease   David E. Anderson, and Margaret A. Chesney

186

Chapter 18

The Role of Sex and Gender in Cardiothoracic Surgery   Sandhya K. Balaram, and Justin D. Blasberg

200

SECTION 4

PULMONOLOGY

 

 

Introduction   Marilyn K. Glassberg

214

Chapter 19

Gender Differences in Asthma   Robert H. Lim, and Lester Kobzik

215

Chapter 20

Gender Issues in Venous Thromboembolism   Susan Murin, Kathryn Bilello, Lisa Moores, and Aaron Hoiley

225

Chapter 21

Sleep in Women: Gender Differences in Health and Disease   Shirin Shafazand

244

Chapter 22

Are Women More Susceptible to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease?   Kenneth R. Chapman

252

Chapter 23

The Gender-Specific Aspects of Lung Cancer   Rebecca L. Toonkel, and Charles A. Powell

260

Chapter 24

Gender-Specific Considerations in Pulmonary Hypertension   Deborah Shure

270

Chapter 25

Sex and Gender Differences in Pulmonary Manifestations of Autoimmune Disease   Muddassir Aliniazee, and Marilyn K. Glassberg

277

Chapter 26

Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma and Lymphangioleiomyomatosis: Lung Diseases of Women   Muddassir Aliniazee, and Marilyn K. Glassberg

286

Chapter 27

Gender Differences in Susceptibility, Outcomes, and Pathophysiology of Sepsis   Kristy A. Bauman, and Meilan K. Han

291

SECTION 5

GASTROENTEROLOGY

 

 

Introduction   Linda A. Lee

304

Chapter 28

Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Women   Melissa Munsell, Marc Sonenshine, and Mary L. Harris

305

Chapter 29

Disorders of Defecation in Women   Susan L. Gearhart

318

Chapter 30

Idiopathic Gastroparesis: Gender Aspects   Henry P. Park Man

326

Chapter 31

Liver Disease in Women   Karen Krok, and Ayman Koteish

331

SECTION 6

REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY

 

 

Introduction   Lauri J. Romanzi

346

Chapter 32

Gender Differences in Irritable Bowel Syndrome   Oclavia Pickett-Blakely, Linda A. Lee, and Gerald Mullin

347

Chapter 33

Contraception   Karen Feisullin, and Carolyn Westhoff

357

Chapter 34

Infertility: The Male   Howard H. Kim, Peter N. Schlegel, and Marc Goldstein

366

Chapter 35

Infertility and in Vitro Fertilization   Elizabeth Barbieri, Sony a Kashyap, and Pak H. Chung

381

Chapter 36

Female Sexual Health   Barbara D. Bartlik, Julie A. Kolzet, Nazia Ahmad, Tahmina Parveen, and Sarah Alvi

400

Chapter 37

Male Sexual Dysfunction   Serkan Deveci, and John P. Muthall

408

Chapter 38

Pelvic Pain: Urogenital Female Disorders   Andrew T. Goldstein, and Lara J. Burrows

414

Chapter 39

Lower Urogenital Tract Dysfunction in Men and Women   Doreen E. Chung, Alexis E. Te, and Renuka Tyagi

421

Chapter 40

Aging and the Lower Urogenital System   Catherine E. Dubeau

432

Chapter 41

Menopause   Gloria Bachmann, and Nora J. Doty

449

SECTION 7

ONCOLOGY

 

 

Introduction   Nancy E. Davidson

458

Chapter 42

The Differences Between Male and Female Breast Cancer   Coral Omene, and Amy Tiersten

459

Chapter 43

Difference in Germ Cell Tumors of the Reproductive Tract in Men and Women   Nicole Lanatra, and Amy Tiersten

473

Chapter 44

Gender Differences in Hereditary Cancer Syndromes: Risks, Management, and Testing for Inherited Predisposition to Cancer   Wendy K. Chung

481

SECTION 8

INFECTIOUS DISEASE

 

 

Introduction   Michael Rendel

496

Chapter 45

Gender Differences in Emerging Infectious Diseases   Sharon Lewin

497

Chapter 46

Sexually Transmitted Infections in Men and Women   Anne M. Rompalo, and Khalil Ghanem

516

Chapter 47

Infections in Pregnancy   Emilia Mia Sordillo, and Bruce Polsky

531

Chapter 48

Adult Immunization in Women and Men   Sally L. Hodder, Debra Chew, and Shobha Swaminathan

563

SECTION 9

IMMUNOLOGY

 

 

Introduction   Robert G. Lahita

584

Chapter 49

Gender Differences in Autoimmune Diseases: Immune Mechanisms and Clinical Applications   Nabih I. Abdou, and Virginia Rider

585

Chapter 50

Hormones and Cytokines: Gender-Specific Effects   Maurizio Cutolo

592

Chapter 51

Prolactin and Autoimmunity   Sara E. Walker

597

Chapter 52

Sex Hormones and Immune Function   Robert O. Lahita

615

Chapter 53

Pregnancy and Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease   Carl A. Laskin, Christine A. Clark, and Karen A. Spitzer

627

Chapter 54

Oral Contraceptives and Autoimmune Diseases   Taraneh Mehrani, and Michelle Pctri

645

Chapter 55

Gender-Specific Issues in Organ Transplantation   Hilary Sanfcy

657

SECTION 10

ENDOCRINOLOGY

 

 

Introduction   Adrian Dobs

678

Chapter 56

Endogenous Sex Hormones and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Men and Women   Sherita Hill Golden

679

Chapter 57

Thyroid Disorders and Pregnancy   Matthew Kim

694

Chapter 58

Sexual Function and Dysfunction in Men and Women   Karen Elizabeth Boyle, and Arthur L. Burnett

707

Chapter 59

Osteoporosis in Men and Women   Kendall F. Moseley, and Suzanne M. Jan Dc Bcur

716

Chapter 60

Testosterone Replacement Therapy in Men and Women   Diala El-Maouche, and Adrian Dobs

737

 

Index

761