Group Work on Amenorrhoea (Classification, Causes, Diagnosis):
• Primary amenorrhoea - absence of menarche by 16 yrs.
• Secondary “ - Absence of menses for 6 months in a women in whom
normal menstruation has been established or for 3 normal intervals in a...
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Group Work on Amenorrhoea (Classification, Causes, Diagnosis):
• Primary amenorrhoea - absence of menarche by 16 yrs.
• Secondary “ - Absence of menses for 6 months in a women in whom
normal menstruation has been established or for 3 normal intervals in a women
with oligomenorrhea(menses occurring at an interval exceeding 35 days).
• Amenorrhea can be of eugonadotropic, hypergonadotropic or hypogonadotropic in
type.
Eugonadotropic amenorrhea:
Causes: A.
Congenital abnormalities of genital tract.
• Rokitanski Kuster Hauster syndrome – Problems with muller duct.
No uterus but
ovaries are normal.
So steroid hormones are normal.
Combined urinary system
malformations produced.
• Hymen occlusivum – No hole in the hymen.
It will results in hematocolpus and
hematometria.
Blood goes via fallopian tubes to the abdomen and cause acute
abdomen.
• Septa vaginae – Transverse vaginal septa, usually in upper 1/3 of the vagina where
fusion of parts of mullerign and urogenital sinus.
• Abse
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