[Commentary] The Polyfollicular Anovulatory Hyperandrogenic Syndrome: A New Label for an Old Syndrome
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چکیده
Polycystic ovary syndrome is a hormonal disorder common among women of reproductive age. The affected may have infrequent or prolonged menstrual cycles excess male hormone levels with manifestations hyperandrogenemia. ovaries fail to ovulate many arrested follicles at the primordial stage. There was time when medical profession honored its members by naming diseases after them and that case Stein Leventhal which later changed polycystic syndrome. Since then, our understanding had dramatically. It now not just mere association symptoms some ultrasonographic features, but rather complex metabolic abnormalities wide spectrum variable clinical presentations. Hence, there an obvious need for new name reflect these abnormalities. This article explains existing problem current suggests system rename
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Qeios
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2632-3834']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32388/dua3d7.4