Heavy Menstrual Bleeding in Adolescent Females with Platelet Function Disorders

Platelet Function Disorders in Adolescents with Heavy Menstrual Bleeding: Clinical Presentations, Laboratory Testing and Treatment Options

Heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) is a common problem in adolescent girls where it comprises a significant public health problem [1]. HMB affects almost one-third of adolescent girls at the time of the menarche. Reports from multiple studies indicate that between 5 and 10 percent of young girls in this age group will seek medical treatment and of those, approximately one-half will experience surgi...

Clinical and laboratory characteristics of adolescents with platelet function disorders and heavy menstrual bleeding

BACKGROUND Platelet function disorders (PFDs) have emerged as an important etiology of heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) in adolescents. However, neither clinical nor laboratory data have been methodically analyzed in this population subset. The objective of this study was to evaluate these parameters in order to distinguish characteristics of the disorder that in turn will lead to earlier diagnos...

Menorrhagia and bleeding disorders in adolescent females.

In women, von Willebrand disease (VWD) is the most common inherited bleeding disorder. Since VWD and other inherited bleeding disorders are autosomal disorders, they affect women and men. Menorrhagia, or heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB), is the most common symptom of women with bleeding disorder experience. Objectively, it is defined as bleeding that lasts for more than seven days or results in t...

fibrinolysis in women with heavy menstrual bleeding

Treatment of heavy menstrual bleeding

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...