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Clinical Features and Plasma Hormone Levels After Surgical Menopause
Author(s) -
Dennerstein Lorraine,
Wood Carl,
Hudson Bryan,
Burrows Graham
Publication year - 1978
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.1978.tb00050.x
Subject(s) - testosterone (patch) , menopause , hormone , medicine , endocrinology , headaches , luteinizing hormone , follicle stimulating hormone , sex hormone binding globulin , plasma levels , estrogen , hormone replacement therapy (female to male) , surgical menopause , physiology , androgen , surgery
Summary: This study reports the plasma levels of follicle stimulating hormone, luteinising hormone, oestradiol and testosterone in 43 women who had undergone bilateral oöphorectomy. Age was the only variable of those investigated which appeared to influence a hormone level; testosterone levels were found to decrease with increasing age. Two significant associations were found between clinical features of the menopause and the plasma hormone levels measured. Low levels of oestradiol were associated with pruritus vulvae and high levels of testosterone were associated with headaches.