Menstrual

Menstrual disorders.

Menstrual disorders.

Menstrual disorders are very common in adolescence, and can be the cause of a significant amount of stress to both the patients and their parents. Variations of the menstrual cycle in this age are very broad and are mainly caused by the immaturity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian (HPO) axis. Amenorrhea (either primary or secondary), abnormal uterine bleeding and dysmenorrhea are conditions...

Menstrual regulation.

Menstrual versus non-menstrual attacks of migraine without aura in women with and without menstrual migraine.

OBJECTIVE The objective of this article is to compare clinical characteristics of menstrual and non-menstrual attacks of migraine without aura (MO), prospectively recorded in a headache diary, by women with and without a diagnosis of menstrual migraine without aura (MM) according to the International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD). MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 237 women from t...

Menstrual function in sports.

OBJECTIVE To highlight the recent developments in the field of menstrual function in sports and to provide an overview of our current understanding in regard to the pathophysiology, evaluation and management strategies of exercise-related reproductive dysfunction. DESIGN A PUBMED search was carried out and all articles published from 1980 to 2010 with title words related to exercise, athletes...