ALLMedicine™ Amenorrhea Center

Sep 14th, 2021 - Transverse vaginal septae (TVS) are congenital, obstructive anomalies of the vagina typically presenting with abdominal pain and amenorrhea. Currently, the literature about surgical management is sparse. Postoperative complications are common. Vag...

Sep 13th, 2021 - Copy number variations of several genes involved in the process of gonadal determination have been identified as a cause of 46,XY differences of sex development. We report a non-syndromic 14-year-old female patient who was referred with primary am...

Sep 9th, 2021 - The aim of this study was to evaluate the general characteristics, menstruation status, and fertility outcomes of patients with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (HH). We evaluated 16 patients with HH who visited our institution between April 2012 and...

Sep 7th, 2021 - 17α-Hydroxylase/17,20-lyase deficiency (17OHD) is caused by pathogenic mutations in CYP17A1. Impaired 17α-hydroxylase and 17,20-lyase activities typically induce hypertension, hypokalemia, sexual infantilism, and amenorrhea. Most patients with 17O...

Sep 5th, 2021 - Premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) is a heterogeneous clinical syndrome defined by a premature loss of ovarian function that associates menstrual disturbances and hypergonatropic hypogonadism. POI is a major cause of female infertility affectin...

May 26th, 2018 - The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, defines eating disorders as a "persistent disturbance of eating or eating-related behavior that results in the altered consumption or absorption of food and that significant...

Apr 4th, 2017 - The American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the European Society of Endocrinology, and the Pediatric Endocrine Society. This guideline was funded by the Endocrine Society. To formulate clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and treatme...

Jul 28th, 2016 - For an adolescent with physical disabilities, intellectual disabilities, or both, and for her caregivers, menstruation can present significant challenges. If, after an evaluation, the adolescent, her family, and the obstetrician-gynecologist have ...

Apr 26th, 2021 - Patients referred to the pediatric endocrinology clinic or adolescent gynecology clinic at Yale New Haven Children Hospital with a primary complaint of hirsutism, acne, or amenorrhea and/or oligomenorrhea persisting 2 years after their menarche wi...

Jul 29th, 2020 - In women, the non-growing population of follicles that comprise the ovarian reserve is determined at birth and serves as the reservoir for future fertility. This reserve of dormant, primordial follicles and the mechanisms controlling their selecti...

Jul 14th, 2021 - One of the most common reasons patients seek care from an ob.gyn. is for contraceptive counseling and family planning. While prescribing contraceptives for cisgender patients is often part of the daily routine for ob.gyns., many are unfamiliar wit...

Feb 18th, 2021 - Editor's Note: The Case Challenge series includes difficult-to-diagnose conditions, some of which are not frequently encountered by most clinicians but are nonetheless important to accurately recognize. Test your diagnostic and treatment skills us...

Feb 18th, 2021 - (Reuters Health) - Daily relugolix therapy cuts menstrual bleeding by at least half without affecting bone density in 71% of women with uterine fibroids, according to results from the LIBERTY 2 trial, published by The New England Journal of Medici...

Feb 3rd, 2021 - New details confirm an increased risk of developing intracranial meningiomas after prolonged use of the hormonal product cyproterone acetate. Cyproterone acetate is a synthetic progestogen and potent anti-androgen that has been used in the treatme...

Oct 16th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A 16-year-old female was unexpectedly identified by direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing to have XY gonadal dysgenesis and subsequently diagnosed with metastatic dysgerminoma, according to a case report. "Physicians...