Klinefelter’s Syndrome
From a Disabling Condition to a Variant of Normalcy
Samenvatting
This book presents the latest insights into all the critical aspects of Klinefelter’s Syndrome, in order to promote a more homogeneous a medical approach to this condition, leading to better and more “evidence-based” support, and improving patient satisfaction.
It offers physicians and all health professionals involved in treating these patients (andrologists, pediatricians, endocrinologists, psychologists) a comprehensive overview and a useful tool for their daily clinical practice.
Specificaties
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<p>Preface</p>
<p>1. Introduction - From a disabling condition to a variant of normalcy</p>
<p>2. Epidemiology of an underdiagnosed syndrome</p>
3. Causes of the extra chromosome/s<p></p>
<p>4. Different karyotypes, same disease?</p>
<p>5. Genetic and epigenetic aspects of the supernumerary X chromosome</p>
<p>6. Prenatal Counselling and management in the early neonatal period</p>
<p>7. EARLY DEVELOPMENTAL PATHWAYS AND COMMUNICATION GOOD PRACTICES</p>
8. THE DIAGNOSIS AT PREPUBERTAL AGE<p></p>
<p>9. WHAT TO DO AND WHEN FROM INFANCY TO PUBERTY</p>
<p>10. Neuropsychiatric aspects</p>
<p>11. Testicular development </p>
<p>12. THE KLINEFELTER PUBERTY</p>
<p>13. GENETIC OF GAMETES</p>
<p>14. Phenotype of the adulthood</p>
<p>15. Hypothalamic-Pituitary Axis Function</p>
<p>16. the altered bone</p>
<p>17. Obesity, the rule or not</p>
<p>18. Lipids and glucose metabolism</p>
<p>19. Cardiovascular characteristics</p>
<p>20. The Thyroid Function </p>
<p>21. ONCOLOGICAL PROBLEMS</p>
<p>22. FERTILITY PRESERVATION</p>
<p>23. Fertility vs Infertility </p>
<p>24. Psychological features</p>
<p>25. Sexual function</p>
<p>26. Testosterone treatment in male patients with Klinefelter’s syndrome</p>

