Young women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) lessen the female advantage include familial hypercholeshave strikingly high rates of coronary heart disease terolaemia [12] and premature menopause [13]. [1–4]. Before we can solve the mystery of why these Less publicized entities associated with premature young women are so afflicted, we must first explore our coronary heart disease are rheu...

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...

A case of POF in a 31-year-old woman with karyotype 47,XXX. The aim of the study was to discuss a case of POF in a 31-year-old patient with polysomy 47,XXX. The described karyotype is not usually associated with this characteristic physical phenotype. In some rare cases, menstrual disorders, sterility, secondary amenorrhoea, premature menopause, and low intelligence are found. Our observations ...

OBJECTIVE To find out the prevalence of natural menopause among Turkish women according to age and certain demographic variables in a specific rural area. METHODS This cross sectional study was carried out in Silivri district of Istanbul, Turkey between January and May 2000. Included in the study were 845 women between the ages of 30-60 years, not undergoing any hormonal replacement, living i...

Cancer survivors are faced with several survivorship issues. In addition, young women may have to face the challenges brought on by premature menopause. The issue of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) in these young ladies has always been a matter of debate. This is based on the theory that HRT could stimulate the growth of residual cancer cells and lead to recurrence. This article reviews the c...

Evolutionary biologists consider all complex design features of organisms to be ultimately the result of natural selection. As such, menopause can always be considered an adaptation. At the same time, it is also recognized that an adaptation is always morphologically, physiologically, and developmentally constrained by an organism’s phylogenetic heritage.18 The question of origin is whether men...

Dizygotic (DZ) twinning appears to run in families and the underlying trait, multiple ovulation, appears to be genetically influenced [Lewis et al., 1996; Meule-mans et al., 1996]. Multiple ovulation is considerably more frequent in mothers of DZ twins than in controls [Martin et al., 1991b] although its hormonal control is far from understood [Martin et al., 1991a]. Whatever the cause, if the ...

Breast carcinoma is the most common cancer in women of reproductive age. In Europe and in the United States, approximately 30% of all breast cancers occur before menopause and 15% of women are diagnosed in the reproductive age (age of 45 or younger). Adjuvant chemotherapy prolongs disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS), especially in young women, but also induces long-term and se...