Week 1 Flashcards
(171 cards)
Incidence of endometriosis in all women = ____ %
- infertile women = ___ %
- chronic pelvic pain (>6 months) = ___ 80%
- 10
- 35
- 80
Risk factors for endometriosis
- family history?
- menarche (late or early)
- long or short cycles?
First degree relative (mother, sister, daughter)
with endometriosis
Menarche at age 10 or less
Cycles
Which associated with endometriosis
- oligomenorrhea
- polymenorrhea
- dysmenorrhea
- metorrhagia
Dysmenorrhea = pain! Esp if worse during menses
Dx? 45 year old woman, presents with pain during menses, last menstrual period 14 days ago, menses regular and heavy. PE feels uterosacral nodularity. Urinalysis shows WBC
Endometriosis
*how would you diagnose endometriomas
Ultrasound!
- Ultrasound showing dark/empty follicular cyst
- ultra sound showing grayish/ground glassy experience (diffuse low-level internal echoes)
- normal follicular cyst
- endometriOMA
*T/F - OK to treat endometriosis before operating?
***what is treatment? (2)
- YES
- NSAID (800 mg*4/day) also oral contraceptives (continuously … Just keep taking the progesterone)
LUPRON = ______ agonist
- used to treat ______
- side effects
- GnRH agonist (gonadotropin releasing)»_space; big dose paradoxically suppresses LH/FSH (cause not pulsating)»_space; shots down sex hormones basically just puts someone into menopause»_space; get really low estrogen (hot flashes, bone loss, dryness)
- rx ENDOMETRIOSIS = 1 shot suppresses menses for 1-3 months
*most common ovarian mass in young woman is _____
Follicular cyst =distention of unruptured graffiti follicle (may be assoc with hyperestrogenism, endometrial hyperplasia)
T/F - Supression of menses (with OCP or Lupron) can help with conception in person with endometriosis
FALSE … Just delays menses/fertility but worse stop (6 month usually) still no Inc in fertility/conception
T/F - surgical option in endometriosis can help with infertility
TRUE
***should choose surgery for endometriOMA if over > (0.5, 1, 3, never) cm
Over 3 cm … Excision of cyst wall more effective than drainage and ablation … Can do multiple but gets more complicated with each
Dx? 31 y/o presents with pain in lower abdomen, dysmenorrhea, dyspareurnia; slightly worse with menses. Reports regular menses since age 13. US shows complex mass that is chocolate colored on biopsy
ENDOMETRIOMA = endometriosis (ectopic endometrial tissue) within ovary with a cyst formation … Called chocolate cause filled with dark, red brown blood (DON”T DRAIN, REMOVE)
Rx with Lupron in patient with _____
- endometriosis»> Lupron = shuts down ovaries»_space; puts into menopause
- Aygestin - helps with hot flashes (progesterone OCP)
- MIRENA (levonorgestrel releasing intrauterine system)
- calcium - bone health
Letrozole/anastrozole
- Mech
- used for ?
- aromatase inhibitors (inhibit conversion of androgens to estrogens)
- can be used for endometriosis – less estrogen means thinner lining, less bleeding, easier menses
T/F- hysterectomy while leaving ovaries is good surgical option for endometriosis
FALSE (if ovaries left behind - which is usually done - then 60% chance of more symptoms and 30% of surgery) … Can be successful if ovaries left behind but that’s big decision (have to deal with side effects of low estrogen)
***when you take BOTh ovaries out, can you still get endometriosis? can you still get estrogen production? HOW?
- -ADRENALS!
- T > estradiol
- Androstenedione»_space; estrone
- DHEA»_space; estrogen
*local expression of aromatase enzyme can lead to development of endometriosis even if women has NO ovaries and are NOT on E replacement therapy (aromatase = turns 19C androgens to 18C E)
***3 categories of ovarian neoplasms (in terms of cell of origin)
- -surface epithelium
- -stroma (with leydig i.e., THECA cells = respond to LH»_space; chol»_space; Progest»_space; ANDROGEN)
- -germ cells (in egg!)
PCOS
- etiology?
- ____(Inc or dec) LH:FSH ratio
- ____ (Inc or dec) testosterone secreted by ______(THECA or GRANULOSA) cells
- signs / symptoms
- excessive secretion of T (can have acne, hair etc) by THECA cells (respond to high LH)
- also have too much E (T»_space;> E by GRANULOSA)
- high LH, low FSH (high LH:FSH ratio)
- oligomenorrhea, amenorrhea, infertility
- assoc with obesity / hyper insulin or insulin resistance hypothesized to affect H-P axis and feedback
PCOS has _____(high/low) LH and ____(high/low) FSH
- get _____(high/low E) and _____(high/low)T
- high LH, low FSH (high LH:FSH)
- high E and T
_______ is most common ovarian neoplasm…is it benign or malignant
Serious cystadenoma (lined with Fallopian tube-liked epithelium) - often bilateral… BENIGN
Surface epithelial cell ovarian tumors
- proportion of malignant ovarian the tumors
- age range
- types / ex (4)
- 90% (because most common ~65-75% of ovarian tumors, but not necessarily more likely to be malignant)
- 20+
- serous, mucinous, endometroid, transitional (brenner)
Ddx of young girl with ovarian tumor? (I.e., which 2 out of the 3 categories is it most likely to be)
- probably GERM cell tumor
- teratoma
- dysgerminoma
- told sac
- chorizo carcinoma
Or *leydig/stroma
-fibromyalgia , GRANULOSA, leydig etc
Most likely dx? 35 year old presents with pain and bleeding; US shows bilateral clear cysts in ovaries; biopsy shows single ciliates columnar epithelium
Benign serous cystadenoma