The Climacteric: An Update

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction to hormonal therapy in the perimenopause

   • J. Ferin

   Pages 1-2

3. Menopause: The beginning of a curable disease or a lucky phenomenon?

   • P. R. Koninckx

   Pages 3-10

4. The climacteric in different cultural contexts

   • P. A. van Keep

   Pages 11-18

5. The view of the woman

   • L. Severne

   Pages 19-28

6. Factors influencing oestrogen production and metabolism in postmenopausal women with endocrine cancer

   • V. H. T. James, E. J. Folkerd, R. C. Bonney, P. A. Beranek, M. J. Reed

   Pages 29-49

7. Steroid hormone receptors and their changes in the perimenopause

   • J. H. H. Thijssen

   Pages 51-62

8. Clinical significance of the binding between oestrogens and intra- and extracellular proteins

   • E. W. Bergink

   Pages 63-74

9. Sex steroids and lipoproteins

   • U. Larsson-Cohn, L. Wallentin

   Pages 75-81

10. Oestrone sulphatase activity in normal and pathological endometria

    • G. Agnani, O. Prost, A. Petitjean, G. L. Adessi

    Pages 83-86

11. Considerations on the output of pituitary gonadotrophins in the perimenopause

    • D. Vandekerckhove, M. Dhont, R. Serreyn

    Pages 87-99

12. Problems of the untreated menopause

    • W. H. Utian

    Pages 101-110

13. The perimenopausal woman: guidance and treatment

    • P. Nijs

    Pages 111-118

14. Oral oestrogen treatment of the climacteric and the postmenopausal period

    • C. Campagnoli, A. Sandri, P. Belforte

    Pages 119-126

15. Percutaneous oestrogen therapy

    • R. Sitruk-Ware, A. Basdevant, B. de Lignières, P. Mauvais-Jarvis

    Pages 127-139

16. Clinical effects of vaginally applied oestrogens

    • S. Wesel

    Pages 141-147

17. Hormone implants in women following hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy

    • J. W. W. Studd, L. D. Cardozo, D. M. F. Gibb, S. M. Tuck, A. L. Magos, M. Brincat et al.

    Pages 149-155

18. Osteoporosis and its treatment

    • J. Dequeker, P. Geusens, A. Verstraeten

    Pages 157-179

19. Early diagnosis of osteoporosis

    • M. Notelovitz

    Pages 181-197

20. Interrelation of oestrogen and the major calcium regulating hormones

    • J. C. Stevenson

    Pages 199-206

THE JAN PALFIJN SYMPOSIA In 1979 the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Jan Palfijn Hospital in Merksem, Antwerp, celebrated its 25th Anniver­ sary. To mark the occasion, the first symposium was organized, the theme chosen being hysteroscopy. Thanks to the cooperation of specialists from both within and outside Belgium the event attracted such a large attendance that it was decided to follow up this first venture with others. In the light of the experience gained from the first symposium, we established the Jan Palfijn Foundation for Gynaecological and Obstetrical Didactics, the reasons for this being budgetary and, in particular, organizational. This approach made it possible to attract the cooperation of enthusiastic fellow workers from outside the hospital on a permanent or ad hoc basis and hence to reach a much wider group of experts in all fields, both at home and abroad. In 1981 the second symposium was held at the Jan Palfijn Hospital, the topic being echography in obstetrics and gynaecology. Almost all of the Belgian universities were represented and papers were presented by confreres from practically all of the EEC countries. When the third symposium was held, in 1982, again on hysteroscopy, the speakers and audience could literally hardly be squeezed into the Jan Palfijn Hospital's facilities. The fourth symposium was accordingly organized in the modern, luxurious facilities of the new administration building of the Antwerp Provincial Authority.

• Perimenopause
• Vagina
• climacteric
• hormones
• menopause
• obstetrics
• sex

• Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, OCMW Jan Palfijn, Merksem (Antwerpen), Belgium

  H. Herendael, B. Herendael

• International Health Foundation, Brussels, Belgium

  F. E. Riphagen

• VZW Jan Palfijn, Steendorp, Belgium

  L. Goessens

• VZW Jan Palfijn, Turnhout, Belgium

  H. Pas

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