THE WORKING WOMB - Alexander Kofinas M. D.

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Résumé :
NEW HOPE FOR EVERY WOMAN WHO HAS ENDURED PREGNANCY ANGUISH. Of all human embryos conceived in the US, 65% don't survive past four weeks. Of those that do, one in four miscarry. Society largely turns a blind eye to these shocking numbers ... and to the fact that every year more American women die of cardiovascular disease than from cancer, accidents, Alzheimer's and respiratory diseases combined. What these topics have in common is the placenta, the organ which is the subject of this eye-opening book. THE WORKING WOMB brings recurrent miscarriage out of the shadows, presenting a new, placenta-based understanding of pregnancy that challenges conventional pregnancy management, and offering crucial answers to women struggling with the lonely despair of repeat miscarriage or other pregnancy obstacles. Dr. Kofinas, one of America's leading high-risk pregnancy experts, delivers science-based optimism to mothers at their wits' end. Drawing on thousands of patient files amassed at his New York clinic, he shares true stories of women who were close to believing a successful pregnancy was beyond them. These inspiring, readable, intimate case summaries tell how, with diagnostic and treatment methods based on placenta science, healthy babies were born despite severe pregnancy complications. (Today my office walls and files are full of photos of their thriving children.) THE WORKING WOMB confronts our society's widespread ignorance of the placenta's key role in determining pregnancy outcomes, and exposes the disgrace of America's high fetal death rate. In plain language that can be understood by readers with no scientific education, Dr Kofinas explains how fetal deaths, recurrent miscarriage, and women's cardiovascular disease all relate to the placenta. The book is filled with surprising facts that the public and medical practitioners alike should know about how the placenta shapes pregnancy outcomes, as well as human health in the womb, infancy, childhood and adulthood. THE WORKING WOMB explains what the placenta is, how it's formed, and its profound effects, what it needs to work successfully, how its problems relate to various types of pregnancy failure, and how the timely, responsive monitoring of placenta development can prevent disaster and address womb crises in time to save the pregnancy. The book is aimed primarily at women experiencing or anticipating pregnancy complications, but it will also be invaluable for their families, as well as for physicians, including obstetricians.

Biographie:
Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio...

Sommaire:
Dr Kofinas is a physician specializing in the application of placenta science to pregnancy complications. His awards include New York magazine Best Doctor (eight times), Patient Choice and Most Compassionate Doctor. Certified by the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology (Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine), he is licensed in New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Maryland, and is a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, American Society for Reproductive Immunology, American College of Angiology, International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology, International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, American Medical Association, American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, Athens Medical Association (Greece) and International Federation of Placenta Associations. Since 2003, he has served as Associate Professor of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York. He has published dozens of scientific papers and served as academic reviewer for the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Journal of Perinatology, Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, Journal of Pregnancy, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Hypertension in Pregnancy, and the authoritative medical journal Placenta. He has also co-authored a textbook and served as Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology, New York University, taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Wake Forest University, North Carolina, and served as Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Associate Director, Obstetrics/ Gynecology Residency Program, at York Hospital, Pennsylvania, as well as Chief, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, at Brooklyn Hospital Center, New York. Since 2000, he has led Kofinas Perinatal PC's clinics in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Garden City, New York. Dr Kofinas studied at Athens University, Greece...