PCOS, the leading cause of anovulatory infertility that affects up to one fifth of the female population, is a complex chronic disease of genetic as well as environmental determination, but still unclear etiology. Besides of infertility, PCOS leads to menstrual dysfunctions, hirsutism and obesity--symptoms that are known to cause profound psychosocial distress. The present paper review the prob...

BACKGROUND Heavy menstrual bleeding is an important health problem. Two frequently used therapies are the levonorgestrel intra-uterine system (LNG-IUS) and endometrial ablation. The LNG-IUS can be applied easily by the general practitioner, which saves costs, but has considerable failure rates. As an alternative, endometrial ablation is also very effective, but this treatment has to be performe...

The controversial history of the reproductive rights of the mentally retarded has led to the formulation of laws in the past century designed to protect women from forced sterilization. Significantly, however, in their official ethical guidelines, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists states that "sterilization should not be denied to individuals simply because they also may b...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of longstanding juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) on menstrual irregularity and the incidence of premature ovarian failure in women. METHODS Women with longstanding JIA who had abnormal or absent menstrual cycles had their circulating levels of gonadotrophins measured to check for the presence of ovarian failure. Disease demographics and subsets, function, ag...

BACKGROUND The home pregnancy market is rapidly evolving. It has moved from detection of pregnancy on the day of missed menstrual bleeding, to detection claims 4 days prior. It is moving from all manual tests to digital tests, with a monitor reading the bands and informing women they are pregnant. A thorough study is needed to investigate the validity of claims and evolving usefulness of device...

Jane Clarke research fellow, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology , University of Auckland, Grafton, Auckland 1010, New Zealand [email protected] Competing interests: The author has completed the Unified Competing Interest form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure. pdf (available on request from the corresponding author) and declares: (1) No financial support for the submitted work from an...

BACKGROUND To our knowledge, no large population - based studies have been performed on the topic of menstrual patterns among Egyptian adolescent in recent years. The aims of this study were to identify menstrual patterns and associated disorders as well as the sources of menstrual health knowledge among Egyptian adolescents. METHODS A cross-sectional survey. A total of 800 questionnaires wer...

Intellectual disability is a term used when a person has certain limitations in mental functioning and skills. Autism is a group of developmental brain disorders, collectively called autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Teenagers with learning and physical disabilities are more likely to have menstrual problems compared to the general populations. The parents of a 12-year-old girl with autism spectr...

Objective. To study the efficacy and safety of tactile electrosurgical ablation (TEA) in stopping a persistent attack of abnormal uterine bleeding not responding to medical and hormonal therapy. Methods. This is a case series of 19 cases with intractable abnormal uterine bleeding, who underwent TEA at the Women's Health Center of Assiut University. The outcomes measured were; patient's acceptab...

In female sport you may experience a high incidence of menstrual dysfunction that affects from the 60% of the 79 athletes practicing competitive sports. In practice, this alteration is characterized by a significant decline of reproductive hormones and associated with a normal menstrual rhythm changed. The literature suggests that the degree of disintegration of the reproductive axis in female-...