HKJGOM 2009; 9 (1) 50 Introduction The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) published a management guideline on heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) in 20071. It was defined as excessive menstrual blood loss that interferes with the woman’s physical, emotional, social, and material quality of life, and which can occur alone or in combination with other symptoms. The current de...

BACKGROUND In previous work in young women aged 15-30 years we measured breast water and fat using MR and obtained blood for hormone assays on the same day in the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle. Only serum growth hormone levels and sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) were significantly associated with percent breast water after adjustment for covariates. The sex hormones estradiol, pro...

Cells with myogenic potential are present in many tissues, and these cells readily form skeletal muscle in culture. We here focus on menstrual blood as another cell source for regenerative medicine. Menstrual blood-derived cells have high replicative ability, similar to progenitors or stem cells, and transdifferentiate or meta-differentiate into myocytes in vitro at unexpectedly high frequencie...

Cell therapy has been established as an important field of research with considerable progress in the last years. At the same time, the progressive aging of the population has highlighted the importance of discovering therapeutic alternatives for diseases of high incidence and disability, such as stroke. Menstrual blood is a recently discovered source of stem cells with potential relevance for ...

BACKGROUND: Menstruation is a phenomenon unique to females and nearly universal experience in women's lives and is poorly understood. It is characterized by co-ordinate sequence of hormonal changes but the changes that occur in the distribution of hematological parameters, biochemical parameters have not been clearly established. AIMS: To compare Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR), Serum tota...

background: tubal ligation (tl) is recommended for women who have completed their family planning. the existence of the menstrual disorders following this procedure has been the subject of debate for decades. this study was conducted to identify the relationship between tubal ligation and menstrual disorders. materials and methods: a historical cohort study was carried out on 140 women undergoi...

As part of a large-scale study of menstrual blood loss in the community serum fibrin degradation products were measured soon after menstruation in 331 women. No significant correlation was found between the amount of blood lost and the serum level of fibrin degradation products. These findings conflict with reports suggesting that excessive intrauterine fibrinolysis, which may play a part in me...

Cervical autofluorescence has been demonstrated to have potential for real-time diagnosis. Inter-patient and intra-patient variations in fluorescence intensity have been measured. Inter-patient measurements may vary by a factor of ten, while intra-patient measurements may vary by a factor of two. Age and menopausal status have been demonstrated to account for some of the variations, while race ...

OBJECTIVES It was aimed to determine whether there was a difference in the leptin levels and short term exercise performance during the menstrual cycle of the young females who had normal menstrual cycle and no pregnancy story. SETTING AND DESIGN Fifteen sedentary females aged 19-23 yrs were included. All had regular menstrual cycle of 28-30 days and no pregnancy story. Blood samples were tak...

1. We undertook a temporal study of external sodium-stimulated lithium efflux (sodium-lithium countertransport) in erythrocytes and blood pressure by measuring these two parameters in three phases of the menstrual cycle (menstrual, midcycle and luteal phases) in 22 healthy, non-medicated females with regular menstrual cycles. Plasma oestradiol and progesterone levels were also determined. 2. So...