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Urinary Gonadotropins — General, F.S.H. and L.H. and Urinary Oestrogens in Dysfunctional Amenorrhoea
Author(s) -
Taft H. P.,
Ekkel I.,
Brown J. B.,
Evans J. H.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.734
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1479-828X
pISSN - 0004-8666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1479-828x.1971.tb00446.x
Subject(s) - urinary system , urine , endocrinology , medicine , dysfunctional family , gynecology , physiology , clinical psychology
Summary: Urinary gonadotrophins—general, F.S.H. and L.H.—and urinary oestrogens were measured in 10 patients, two with primary and eight with secondary dysfunctional amenorrhoea. Gonadotrophin levels were within the normal range whether or not urine oestrogen excretion was at postmenopausal levels. No pattern of relationship between the F.S.H.: L.H. ratio and urine oestrogen emerged, these ratios being similar to those found in other “non‐cycling” situations. The absence of an inverse relationship between gonadotrophin and oestrogen with gonadotrophin levels being inappropriately low relative to oestrogen levels, considered together with the clinical history and outcome of treatment, support the thesis of hypothalmic‐pituitary failure as the cause of the defect in these patients.