gyno Flashcards
(9 cards)
premature menopause
ovarian failure/ menses stopping before 40 (for 12+ mo)
menopause symptoms
HAVOC (hot flashes/vasomotor instability, atropy of vag, OP, coronary artery dz), insomnia, anxiety, poor [], mood swings, libido loss, dysparenia
menopause labs
Increase FSH then inc LH, DEXA, lipid (inc choles, dec HDL)
contraindications to HRT
vag bleeding,
HRT
increased breast, endometrial ca. thromboembolism, chronic liver, hypertriglyceridemia
hot flashes Rx
venlafaxine, clonidine
primary amenorrhea
mullerian agenesis (2/3 vag), imperforate hymen that cannot escape along with bulging hymen, complete androgen insensitivity (breast development)
1 amenorrh workup
1- get an hCG 2- XR to determine if bone age is consistent
LH/FSH symptoms
dec GnRH, LH/FSH, estrogen/progesterone: at prepuberty is constitutional growth delay and after is hpothal or pituitary problem
incr GnRH and LH/FSH but dec estrogen/rpgest: hypergonadotrophic hypogonadism. Ovaries don’t produce estrogen
incr GnRH, LH/FSH, high estrogen/testosterone: PCOS, estrogen Rs problem