Obesity and Gynecology

Tahir Mahmood, CBE, MD, FRCPI, FFRSH, MBA, FACOG, FRCPE, FEBCOG, FRCOGConsultant Gynecologist and Clinical Director Women , Children and Clinical Services Directorate , Victoria Hospital, NHS Fife, Kirkcaldy, Scotland, UKPast Vice-President Standards, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (2007-2010); President, European Board and College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (EBCOG, 2014-2017); Past President of Edinburgh Obstetrical Society ( 2012-2014); Past President of the Northern Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society of Scotland ( 1999-2011), National Lead for Heavy Menstrual Bleeding Audit in England and Wales (2010-2015), FIGO Hyperglycaemia in Pregnancy Working Group ( 2014-2016); and is currently International UNFPA Consultant for EECA Region, Chair of EBCOG Standards of Care and Position Statements Group, and Life Trustee Lindsay Stewart R&D Foundation of the Royal College of Obstetrician and Gynaecologists. In the recent past, he has held honorary senior Clinical Lectureships at the Universities of Edinburgh, Dundee and St. Andrews in Scotland. He has edited 10 manuscripts and has published more than 200 research papers and chapters.He was appointed as Commander of the order of the British Empire (CBE) in the New Year’s honours list (2012) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the 2nd Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, PhD, DSc, FRCOG, FRCS, FACOG, Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (O&G) of St. George’s University, London; Foundation Professor of O&G, University of Nicosia, Visiting Professor, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College, London; Past President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (2007-2010); President: International Federation of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (FIGO) 2012-2015; Head, Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, St George’s University Hospital, London, UK (1997-2013). National award recipient of Knight Bachelor in the UK and Sri Lanka Ranjana in Sri Lanka for services to Medicine. Frank A. Chervenak, MD, MMM currently serves as Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Lenox Hill Hospital; Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Associate Dean of International Medicine, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He has published 327 papers in peer review literature and has co-authored or co-edited 38 textbooks. Research interests include ultrasound and ethics in obstetrics & gynecology and physician leadership. He has been named a member of The National Academy of Medicine of the National Academies. Dr. Chervenak has served on the Board of Governors of the American Institute in Ultrasound and Medicine and the Society of Perinatal Obstetricians. He has served as President of the World Association of Perinatal Medicine, International Fetal Medicine in Surgery Society, the New York Perinatal Society and the New York Academy of Medicine Section of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the New York Obstetrical Society. Currently, Dr. Chervenak serves as President of the International Society of the Fetus as a Patient, Vice-president of the International Academy of Perinatal Medicine, and Co-director of The Ian Donald Inter-University School of Medicine and Ultrasound. He has been awarded doctor honoris causae from 11 International Universities. He has been admitted as a fellow ad eundem of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Great Britain and as a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has been named an Honorary Member of the Mexican Academy of Pediatrics and a “Knight of Medicine” by the University of Georgia.

• PrefaceSection 1: Obesity and adolescence1. Obesity and the onset of adolescenceZana Bumbuliene, Gabriele Tridenti and Anastasia Vatopoulou2. Obesity in adolescenceGail Busby and Mourad W. Seif3. Obesity in polycystic ovary syndrome and infertilityIoannis E. Messinis, Christina I. Messini and Konstantinos DafopoulosSection 2: Contraception4. Obesity and sexual healthSharon Cameron and Michelle Cooper5. Obesity and contraceptionSujeetha Damodaran and Krishnan Swaminathan6. Contraceptive choices for women before and after bariatric surgeryAgnieszka Jurga-Karwacka and Johannes Bitzer7. Long-term contraceptive care in obese and superobese womenJohannes BitzerSection 3: Male and female Infertility8. Obesity and hirsutismMostafa Metwally9. Obesity and female infertilitySuresh Kini, Mythili Ramalingam and Tahir Mahmood10. Obesity and recurrent miscarriageAndrew C. Pearson and Tahir A. Mahmood11. Obesity and assisted reproductionMark Hamilton and Abha Maheshwari12. Obesity and sexual dysfunction in menDarius A. Paduch and Laurent Vaucher13. Male obesity—impact on semen qualityVanessa Kay and Sarah Martins da Silva14. Evidence-based assisted reproduction in obese womenBrenda F Narice and Mostafa Metwally15. Obesity, bariatric surgery, and male reproductive functionMan-wa Lui, Jyothis George and Richard A. Anderson16. Medical interventions to improve outcomes in infertile obese women planning for pregnancyVikram Talaulikar17. Surgical interventions to improve fertility potential in obese men and womenJoseph Chervenak and Frank ChervenakSection 4: General Gynaecology18. Obesity and gynecology ultrasoundKiran Vanza, Mathew Leonardi and George Condous19. Obesity and menstrual disordersJane J. Reavey, W. Colin Duncan, Savita Brito-Mutunayagam, Rebecca M. Reynolds and Hilary O.D. Critchley20. Incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse in the obese womanClare F. Jordan and Douglas G. Tincello21. Urinary and fecal incontinence in obese womenVasilios Pergialiotis and Stergios K. Doumouchtsis22. Role of obesity in cancer in womenJoanna M. Cain23. Obesity and breast cancerChiara Benedetto, Emilie Marion Canuto and Fulvio Borella24. Obesity and female malignanciesKetankumar B. Gajjar and Mahmood I. Shafi25. Challenges in gynecological surgery in obese womenChu Lim and Tahir A. Mahmood26. Laparoscopic and robotic surgery in obese womenManou Manpreet Kaur and Thomas Ind27. Obesity and venous thromboembolismJulia Czuprynska and Roopen Arya28. Obesity and cardiovascular disease in reproductive healthIsioma Okolo and Tahir Mahmood29. Female obesity and osteoporosisRashda Bano and Tahir A. Mahmood30. Obesity, menopause, and hormone replacement therapyMarta Caretto, Andrea Giannini, Tommaso Simoncini and Andrea R. Genazzani31. Obesity and chronic pelvic painI-Ferne Tan and Andrew W. Horne32. Obesity and clinical psychosomatic women’s healthMira Lal and Abhilash H.L. Sarhadi33. Obesity and psychosexual disordersErnesto Gonzalez-Mesa34. Professionally responsible clinical management of obese patients before and during pregnancyFrank A. Chervenak and Laurence B. McCullough