background and objectives: primary amenorrhea is not a disease but a symptom that may result from several quite different causes[nn1] . common hormonal cause of primary amenorrhea includes constitutional delay, hypothalamic –pituitary dysfunction, chronic systemic disease and absent ovarian function. the aim of this study was to estimate the incidence of the chromosomal abnormality referred for...

Escitalopram is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. A 34-year-old female patient with major depressive disorder developed amenorrhea and had a false-positive urine pregnancy test after initiation of escitalopram treatment. To our knowledge, no publish...

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of the female athlete triad, which is a clinical condition defined as the simultaneous occurrence of disordered eating, amenorrhea, and osteopenia and/or osteoporosis in female athletes. A total number of 224 female athletes from Edirne city participated in our study. Eating attitudes test (EAT 40) and a self-administered questionnaire were ...

OBJECTIVE The removal of the amenorrhea criterion for anorexia nervosa (AN) is being considered for the fifth edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-V). This article presents and discusses the arguments for maintaining as well as those for removing the criterion. METHOD The psychological and biological literatures on the utility of amenorrhea as a distinguishing diagnostic crit...

OBJECTIVE To study the frequency of the chromosomal abnormality (CA), referred for karyotyping, and counseling in individuals with primary amenorrhea (PA) and secondary amenorrhea (SA). METHODS We report on a retrospective survey of 865 women with amenorrhea (620-PA and 245-SA) at the Division of Human Genetics, Department of Anatomy, St. John's Medical College, Bangalore, India from 1973 to ...

O R IG IN A L A R T IC L E Julio Elito Junior Luiz Camano Unruptured tubal pregnancy: different treatments for early and late diagnosis Department of Obstetrics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo — Escola Paulista de Medicina, São Paulo, Brazil CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: There is evidence that ectopic pregnancies present different behavioral patterns. These distinct evolutions of ectopic pregnancie...

OBJECTIVE To compare the outcome and cost-effectiveness of various forms of preoperative endometrial preparation prior to hysteroscopic endometrial destruction for abnormal uterine bleeding. METHODS This was a multicenter, prospective, comparative, randomized study conducted in a tertiary care hospital in Cairo, Egypt and 2 academic tertiary care teaching hospitals in the United States. One h...