A 13-year-old, obese girl presented with acute abdominal pain with abdominal distension for a year. The physical examination revealed marked abdominal distension with a large well-circumscribed mass sized 13×20 cm. Her body mass index (BMI) was 37.8 kg/m2. An abdominal CT scan revealed a huge multiloculated cystic mass and a left adnexal mass. She had an abnormal fasting plasma glucose and low ...

Polycystic ovary syndrome is an accumulation of endocrine changes that associates oligo-amenorrhea, obesity, hirsutism, androgen excess and resistance to insulin. Ovarian drilling can be done through classical laparoscopy and by transvaginal hydrolaparoscopy minimally invasive surgical method. We performed a meta-analysis of eight studies conducted between 2003-2011, which include a total of 35...

polycystic ovary syndrom (pcos) is characterized by infertility, oligomenorrhea, and hyperandrogenism. clomiphene citrate (cc), an antiestrogen, is first-line treatment for pcos, if cc fails to induce ovulation, laparascopic electrocautery of the ovaries is offered. in this prospective controlled study, 52 women with clomiphen-resistant pcos (group 1) and 46 women with regular menstrual cycles ...

background: some studies propose that changes in leptin concentrations (above or under the normal range) result in infertility. therefore, we investigated serum and follicular fluid leptin concentrations in infertile women with polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos). objective: to study serum and follicular fluid leptin concentrations in infertile women with pcos. materials and methods: we conducted ...

objective: exercise activity could be an amendment to polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos). however the acute and chronic effects of various exercise intensities on serum leptin levels are ambiguous. this study investigates the acute and chronic responses of various intensities of exercise on serum leptin levels and weights of female rats with pcos. methods: in this semi-empirical study, 80 adult w...

Background: The present research explores the correlation of visceral obesity index with Rotterdam criteria (hyperandrogenism and/or hyperandrogenemia, oligomenorrhea and Ultrasound polycystic ovarian morphology) among Egyptian polycystic ovary syndrome patients. Methods: We enrolled one hundred female patients with polycystic ovary syndrome with age ranged 18-44 years (mean age 26.83±6.092 yea...

Insulin resistance is an important "upstream" driver for reproductive and metabolic abnormalities in women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS). This theoretical background is now supported by substantial evidence for treating women with PCOS with insulin sensitising agents such as metformin or the thiazolidinediones. Although the available data are based upon studies comprised of relatively s...