C.v.B. is a girl who was born of psychopathic criminal and, in all probability, mentally subnormal parents. Her mental and physical development was backward from birth; at the age of 4 she could walk but did not speak. Earlier data are lacking. She stayed in several children's homes, and from the age of 9 she was in the Institution for Mentally Deficient Children in Noordwijk. At the age of 1 1...

N.F. Santoro and G. Neal-Perry (eds.), Amenorrhea: A case-Based, clinical Guide, Contemporary endocrinology, DOI 10.1007/978-1-60327-864-5_2, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 Menstruation is a result of the profound tissue remodeling that occurs each month in reproductive-aged women. After withdrawal of steroid hormone support, the functionalis layer of the endometrium undergoes exte...

Traditional healing rituals in many parts of the world seem to derive from a model of cyclical renewal provided in the first instance by menstruation. Health is seen as dependent upon a correct balance between polar opposite states such as 'heat' and 'cold','dryness' and 'wetness' etc. Nature seems to achieve such balance by alternating regularly between opposites such as night and day, wet sea...

Aim: Although there are many measurement tools in the literature to measure menstruation attitudes and symptoms, is a need for specific tool that measures impacts of alone on women’s life, independent premenstrual syndrome dysmenorrhea. Our aim was create scale so we could study.
 Materials Methods: It methodological research. The sample consisted 615 female university students. Menstrual ...

The aim of this study was to assess the effects of intensive training on menstrual function and related serum hormones and peptides.Forty female participants who attended a training course for an officer at the Korea Third Military Academy, and had regular menstrual periods were enrolled. Menstrual questionnaires and fasting blood samples were collected before entry and at 4-week intervals for ...

OBJECTIVES Nurses are at high risk of dysmenorrhoea while working with patients. The study objectives were to: (1) describe the demographic and menstruation characteristics of dysmenorrhoea, knowledge about dysmenorrhoea and menstrual attitudes towards menstruation among dysmenorrhoeal and non-dysmenorrhoeal hospital nurses; (2) identify significant differences between the groups; and (3) exami...

In this study, to estimate the current status of young women with menstrual disorders, the relation among dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation and premenstrual symptoms was investigated by a questionnaire. Subjects ranging from 18 to 20 years old were recruited from 522 female students at Ashiya College in Japan. The intensity of dysmenorrhea was classified into 3 grades (score 1, not requiring...

INTRODUCTION Menstruation is commonly associated with migraine and irritable bowel but is rarely correlated with angina or myocardial ischaemia. Only a small number of cases have been reported suggesting a link between menstruation and myocardial ischaemic events. CASE PRESENTATION A case of menstruation angina is reported in order to raise awareness of this association. A 47-year-old South A...

This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted amongst 550 secondary school girls in southeastern Nigeria to determine their perceptions, problems, and practices on menstruation. Majority of the students, (75.6%), were aged 15-17 years. Only 39.3% perceived menstruation to be physiological. Abdominal pain/discomfort, (66.2%), was the commonest medical problem encountered by the respondent...