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Infertility

Alan H. DeCherney, MD, Katherine A Green, MD, Eric D. Levens, MD
    • Updates regarding the assessment and treatment of ovulatory disorders
    • Ovulation induction with letrozole in anovulatory patients
    • Advances in in vitro fertilization, including genetic screening
    • Fertility preservation options, including in vitro oocyte maturation, ovarian tissue cryopreservation, and mature oocyte cryopreservation

Infertility

Alan H. DeCherney, MD, Katherine A Green, MD, Eric D. Levens, MD
    • Updates regarding the assessment and treatment of ovulatory disorders
    • Ovulation induction with letrozole in anovulatory patients
    • Advances in in vitro fertilization, including genetic screening
    • Fertility preservation options, including in vitro oocyte maturation, ovarian tissue cryopreservation, and mature oocyte cryopreservation

The Use of Adjuvant or Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Extremity and Truncal Sarcoma

Robert J Canter, MD, MAS
    • Soft tissue sarcomas are heterogeneous tumors with diverse behavior and response to therapy.
    • Increasing data favor a histology-driven approach to soft tissue sarcoma multidisciplinary treatment.
    • Chemotherapy in the management of primary resectable soft tissue sarcoma is controversial and evolving.
    • Recent evidence supports a more routine use of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in high-risk soft tissue sarcoma.
    • Recent suggest that narrow, but negative margins with radiotherapy lead to favorable local control rates.

The Use of Adjuvant or Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Extremity and Truncal Sarcoma

Robert J Canter, MD, MAS
    • Soft tissue sarcomas are heterogeneous tumors with diverse behavior and response to therapy.
    • Increasing data favor a histology-driven approach to soft tissue sarcoma multidisciplinary treatment.
    • Chemotherapy in the management of primary resectable soft tissue sarcoma is controversial and evolving.
    • Recent evidence supports a more routine use of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in high-risk soft tissue sarcoma.
    • Recent suggest that narrow, but negative margins with radiotherapy lead to favorable local control rates.

Antepartum and Postpartum Hemorrhage

Lauriane Guichard, MD, Carlo Pancaro, MD
    • Delineation of obstetric hemorrhage class based on blood loss in addition to vital sign changes
    • Use of Maternal Early Warning Criteria for early detection of acute hemorrhage
    • Use of obstetric hemorrhage emergency flowcharts to help guide resuscitation
    • Use of rotational thromboelastometry to guide obstetric hemorrhage blood product administration
    • Early use of tranexamic acid to reduce obstetric hemorrhage mortality

Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Esophagus

    • Endoscopic therapy has become a definitive therapeutic modality for intramucosal disease.
    • Definitive chemoradiation has become an alternative strategy in patients demonstrating a complete clinical response
    • Trimodality therapy has emerged as a preferred approach in most operable patients with resectable tumors.

Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Esophagus

Wayne L Hofstetter, MD, Kyle G Mitchell, MD, David B Nelson, MD
    • Endoscopic therapy has become a definitive therapeutic modality for intramucosal disease.
    • Definitive chemoradiation has become an alternative strategy in patients demonstrating a complete clinical response
    • Trimodality therapy has emerged as a preferred approach in most operable patients with resectable tumors.

Hypothyroidism and Thyrotoxicosis

Paul W. Ladenson, MD
    • 2017 Guidelines of the American Thyroid Association for the Diagnosis and Management of Thyroid Disease During Pregnancy and the Postpartum
    • 2016 American Thyroid Association Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Hyperthyroidism and Other Causes of Thyrotoxicosis.
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