CONTEXT Despite its frequency, the polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is still a difficult diagnosis in endocrinology, gynecology, and reproductive medicine. To help solve this issue, the Rotterdam consensus conference proposed to include the ultrasonographic follicle count as a new diagnostic criterion, in addition to hyperandrogenism and oligo-anovulation. Unfortunately, its assessment does not...

ERIM Report Series reference number ERS-2004-080-MKT Publication August 2004 Number of pages 21 Email address corresponding author [email protected] Address Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) Rotterdam School of Management / Rotterdam School of Economics Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam P.O. Box 1738 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands Phone: +31 10 408 1182 Fax: +31 10 408 9640 Ema...

Background: The main characteristic of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is oligomenorrhea with clinical and biochemical signs of hyperandrogenism(HA) and the phenotypic spectrum of PCOS is very broad. There are very limited studies about the features of patients with PCOS in Iran. The purpose of this study is to compare the clinical and laboratory characteristics of PCOS between the overweight ...

Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is the most common form of chronic anovulation associated with androgen excess. Large scale studies have observed a prevalence rate of PCOS 5% to 10% among reproductive-age women.1,2 Currently, there are 3 widely accepted sets of criteria for diagnosis of PCOS.3,4 After excluding other causes of hyperandrogenism, National Institute of Health (NIH) criteria (19...

Erasmus MC / University Medical Center Rotterdam / Sophia Children’s Hospital, Division of Pediatric Oncology/Hematology, Rotterdam The Netherlands. Erasmus MC / University Medical Center Rotterdam, Department of Clinical Genetics, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Dutch Childhood Oncology Group, The Hague, The Netherlands. COALL study group, Hamburg, Germany. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, D...

1 Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland 2 Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 3 Department of Cardiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 4 Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 5 Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medi...

1 Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Erasmus MC–Sophia Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2 Laboratory of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC–Sophia Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 3 Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Children’s Hospital of ...

Helen Heath, Claudia Ribeiro de Almeida, Frank Sleutels, Gemma Dingjan, Suzanne van de Nobelen, Iris Jonkers, Kam-Wing Ling, Joost Gribnau, Rainer Renkawitz, Frank Grosveld, Rudi W Hendriks* and Niels Galjart* Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Immunology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Erasmu...