symptoms so that effective therapy can be started. How are PMS and PMDD diagnosed? The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV ), describes the 11 groups of symptoms instrumental in establishing a diagnosis of PMDD: (1) feeling sad, hopeless; (2) feeling tense, anxious; (3) lability of mood; (4) persistent irritability; (5) decreased interest in usual activ...

Introduction: Idiopathic premature ovarian failure is defined as cessation of menstruation before the expected age of menopause (40 years) without detectable cause. the definitive line of treatment is egg donation which is not accepted in many countries. Bee venom is a miracle it has a unique composition so the aim of this work is to use ultrasound guided intra ovarian injection of Bee venom as...

Prostaglandin (PG) F-2\g=a\is involved in a number of reproductive functions, including luteolysis (Goding, 1974) and menstruation (Pickles, Hall, Best & Smith, 1965). Luteolysis in sheep is controlled by a local feedback loop operating between the uterus and the corpus luteum, and menstruation in primates is also directly controlled by the ovarian steroid hormones. A fuller knowledge of how th...

The fact t,hat among other changes, menstruation involves bleeding from the blood vessels injured at the shedding of the uterine mucosa has directed special interest to the blood changes which attend the phases of menstrual cycles. Demonstrable fall in the platelet count at the time of menstruation (Pfeiffer and ,Hoff, 1929) and the simultaneous lowering of capillary resistance (Henning, 1924) ...

Cesarean scar defects (CSDs) that can be visualized using transvaginal ultrasonography (TVUS) may cause prolonged menstruation, irregular genital bleeding, and secondary infertility; surgical repair is sometimes necessary. We present a case of CSD, with dehiscence of the uterine incision, which was managed using wound lavage. A 38-year-old woman (gravida 4, para 4) had delivered her third and f...

We investigated the effects of time-pressure stress on Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices performance in 64 lowand 64 high-trait anxious female subjects, tested either during premenstruation or menstruation. Based on previously reported associations between arousal/stress and intelligence test performance, we predicted that menstrual cycle variation would interact with stress-induced arousal...

available literature therefore is not great and a proportion of it rather diffuse and uninforming. In general, two rather vague ideas are current; that in association with insanity, scanty menstruation or actual amenorrhoea is common; and that, when menstruation persists, exacerbations of mental disease are likely to occur at these times. Such views are found in many of the current text-books a...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the menstrual cycle on the static balance of healthy young women. [Subjects and Methods] Eighteen healthy young subjects (mean age 19.1 years; weight 57.5 kg; height 159.9 cm) participated in this study. The Good Balance system was used to measure the postural sway speed and velocity moment of subjects in the static standing ...

background: muslim women tend to postpone their menstrual period using short course oral contraceptives (oc) during ramadan, muslims fasting month. recently, many cases of stroke, particularly cerebral vein thrombosis (cvt), have been reported in ramadan. objective: this work studies the incidence of cvt and its relation to ramadan. materials and methods: this is a cohort study conducted from o...

multiple sclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease of central nervous system.women are more susceptible to this disease. one of the obvious clinical complaints in women with multiple sclerosis specially treated with beta interferones is menstrual cycle irregularity. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of menstrual irregularities and probable changes in blood levels of relate...