Name
PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE
DESCRIPTION
DETAIL
CAUSES OF REAL AMENORRHOEA : 1. PHYSIOLOGICAL * AFTER MENOPAUSE * DURING PREGNANCY * DURING LACTATION 2. PATHOLOGICAL A. GENITAL SYSTEM : * PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE * MASCULINIZING TUMORS OF THE OVARY * ABSENCE OF OVARIAN HORMONES * CERTAIN RARE FUNCTIONING TUMORS OF OVARY LIKE ARRHENOBLASTOMA, GRANULOSA CELL TUMOR * DESTRUCTION OF BOTH OVARIES BY DOUBLE OVARIAN GROWTH, PELVIC INFLAMMATION, OPERATION, RADIATION, AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE, POLYCYSTIC OVARIAN DISEASE, RESISTANT OVARIAN SYNDROME * OBSTRUCTION OF CERVICAL CANAL CAUSING SEVERE STENOSIS OR ATRESIA FOLLOWING ELECTROCAUTERIZATION, CHEMICAL BURNS & CERVICAL AMPUTATION IN FOTHERGILL REPAIR OPERATION, FOLLOWING CONIZATION FOR CERVICAL DYSPLASIA OR GENITAL TUBERCULOSIS. * ASHERMAN SYNDROME FOLLOWING EXCESSIVE CURETTAGE OR ENDOMETRIAL TUBERCULOSIS * INFECTIONS - MUMPS, TUBERCULOSIS RARELY PYOGENIC INFECTIONS * HYSTERECTOMY B. CIRCULATORY SYSTEM : * ANEMIA * LEUKEMIA * HODGKINS DISEASE C. WASTING CONDITIONS : * MALIGNANT GROWTH * TUBERCULOSIS * PROLONGED SUPPURATION * DIABETES * LATE STAGES OF NEPHRITIS * LATE STAGE OF SOME FORM OF HEART DISEASE * LATE STAGE OF LIVER CIRRHOSIS D. NERVOUS SYSTEM : * VARIOUS FORMS OF INSANITY * ANOREXIA NERVOSA OR LOSS OF WT. * BULIMIA * EXTREME OBESITY * SUGGESTION-FEAR OF PREGNANCY E. ALTERED INTERNAL SECRETIONS : * PRIMARY HYPOTHALAMIC PITUTARY FAILURE * ANT. PITUTARY FAILURE ( SIMMOND DISEASE ), SHEEHAN SYNDROME * HYPERPROLACTINEMIA * TUMOURS LIKE PROLACTINOMAS , CHROMOPHOBE ADENOMAS * EMPTY SELLAR SYNDROME * GONADOTROPIN RELEASING HORMONE DEFICIENCY * STEIN-LEVENTHAL SYNDROME * MYXOEDEMA * ADDISONS DISEASE * THYROTOXICOSIS * ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA * ADRENAL CORTICAL TUMORS * ADRENOGENITAL SYNDROME * ACROMEGALY * OBESITY * DYSTROPHIA ADIPOSE-GENITALIS * EMOTIONAL STRAIN * CLIMATIC CHANGE * DIETETIC DEFICIENCIES F. TOXIC * DURING & AFTER SPECIFIC FEVERS * CHRONIC POISONING BY LEAD, MERCURY, ALCOHOL & MORPHINE * DRUGS - PHENOTHIAZINES, RESERPINE, ANTIDEPRESSANTS, ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES, TRANQUILLIZERS, METOCLOPRAMIDE* SERUM E2 LEVELS - LOW * SERUM FSH & LH LEVELS - HIGH * SERUM PROLACTIN LEVELS - NORMAL * SERUM TSH LEVELS - NORMAL
TYPENOTES
RELATED DISEASE
Not Available Disease
DISEASE
INVESTIGATION
TSH, SERUM PROLACTIN ( NONPREGNANT FEMALE ), SERUM E2 ( FEMALE ), LH ( FEMALE - FOLLICULAR PHASE ), FSH ( FEMALE - FOLLICULAR PHASE ), CT SCAN HEAD, COMPLETE BLOOD COUNT, CT SCAN ABDOMEN