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...

  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 ...

OBJECTIVE To identify factors associated with cancer treatment-induced amenorrhea and time to return of menses. DESIGN Population-based cohort study. SETTING Not applicable. PATIENT(S) Female cancer survivors who were diagnosed with cancer between the ages of 20 and 35 and were at least 2 years postdiagnosis at the time of recruitment (median = 7 years; interquartile range, 5-11). INTER...

introduction primary amenorrhea isa condition in which a young woman has not started her menstrual periods by the age of 16-18. the principal features of polycystic ovarian syndrome (pcos) are anovulation, resulting in irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, and ovulation-related infertility. case presentation from january 2007 to june 2013 we conducted 2215 laparoscopies, out of which 605(27.6%) w...