Drug-Induced Infertility and Sexual Dysfunction

This unique source of reference provides the first comprehensive guide to the adverse side-effects of many commonly prescribed drugs on fertility and sexual health.

Robert G. Forman (Author), Susanna K. Gilmour-White (Author), Nathalie H. Forman (Author)

9780521021739, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 3 November 2005

168 pages
23 x 15.4 x 1.1 cm, 0.256 kg

' … a splendidly timed book … recommended reading for all regular prescribers, and particularly for those to whom problems of infertility and/or sexual dysfunction are likely to present.' Philip Myerscough, British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

This unique source of reference provides the first comprehensive guide to the adverse side-effects of many commonly prescribed drugs on fertility and sexual health. More than 150 drugs are listed in this compilation, and the evidence linking them with infertility and sexual dysfunction is carefully reviewed. The volume is designed to provide a rapid source of reference to alert doctors and pharmacists to these hazardous side-effects. The volume also includes an introductory account of the reproductive process and a review of the mechanisms by which these drugs can interfere with or inhibit reproduction. Another important theme of the volume is the effect of social and recreational drugs and environmental agents on reproductive health.

1. Sexual and reproductive function
2. Antihypertensive therapy
3. Psychotropic and central nervous system drugs
4. Cancer chemotherapy
5. Hormone therapy
6. Antibiotics
7. Miscellaneous drugs
8. Recreational drugs and drugs of abuse
9. Fertility and the environment
Index.

Subject Areas: Medical toxicology [MMGT], Pharmacology [MMG], Endocrinology [MJG], Reproductive medicine [MFKC]