One hundred and twenty five patients with polycystic ovaries on ultrasonography and 17 controls with normal ovaries on ultrasound and regular ovulary cycles underwent clinical and endocrine evaluation. Of 125 ultrasound-diagnosed polycystic ovary patients (PCO) 49.6% complained about hirsutism, 55.2% had menstrual disturbances (46.4% oligomenorrhea, 8.8% amenorrhea), 23.2% had normal but irregu...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine, in women with primary infertility, whether specific characteristics or behavioural factors are associated with the various pathological conditions identified as contributing to the infertility. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTING Seven institutions in the USA or Canada. PARTICIPANTS Study subjects were 1750 women who presented with primary infertility, among w...

A premenarcheal girl aged 12 years presented with an abdominopelvic mass and virilisation. A large ovarian cyst was removed at laparotomy. A histological diagnosis of polycystic ovarian syndrome was made, with no evidence of an associated masculinising tumour.

Background: The present research explores the correlation of visceral obesity index with Rotterdam criteria (hyperandrogenism and/or hyperandrogenemia, oligomenorrhea and Ultrasound polycystic ovarian morphology) among Egyptian polycystic ovary syndrome patients. Methods: We enrolled one hundred female patients with polycystic ovary syndrome with age ranged 18-44 years (mean age 26.83±6.092 yea...

Success of any assisted reproductive technology is dependent on selection of correct stimulation protocol. This is based on prestimulation assessment of female to assess ovarian response and reserve. But, this assessment can also be done by ultrasound scan on 2nd to 3rd day of menstrual cycle, named as ‘baseline scan’. This scan is done to categorize ovary into one of the four types: Normal ova...

objective: to review the potential role and specific impact of statin drugs in women with pcos. the evidence for this use of statins in pcos is limited and still under further investigation. materials and methods: a search was conducted using pubmed, dynamed and pubmedhealth databases through october 16, 2016 using the terms polycystic ovary syndrome, pcos, hydroxymethylglutaryl-coa reductase i...

abstract background: polycystic ovarian syndrome is one of the most common endocrine disorders with a prevalence of 5-10% in women. this syndrome is one of the major causes for menstrual disorders and is treated by medicational and non-medicational methods. this study aimed to define the effect of auriculotherapy on menstruation disorders in girls with polycystic ovarian syndrome. materials and...

background: polycystic ovarian syndrome (pcos) is a common endocrinopathy that accompanied with long term complications. the early diagnosis of this syndrome can prevent it. objective: the aim was to determine the role of anti-mullerian hormon (amh) in pcos diagnosis and to find cut off level of it. materials and methods: in this cross sectional study, 117 women between 20-40 years old were par...

abstract objective: insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia are common among the women with polycystic ovarian syndrome (pcos). familial aggregation of pcos has implications on the role of heredity in this disease. the aim of this study was to evaluate insulin resistance among the fathers, mothers, and siblings of the women with pcos referring to the clinics affiliated to shiraz university of m...

conclusions: anthropometric, biochemical, and ultrasonographic findings showed significant differences among pcos subgroups. the pcos subgroups with regular menstrual cycles (ha+pco), had high insulin resistance (ir) and gonadotropic hormonal abnormalities, compared with the im+ha+pco subgroups and controls. results: the pcos subgroups with regular menstrual cycles (ha+pco), had more luteinizin...