What's the difference between amenorrhea and amenorrhoea?
Amenorrhea
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Amenorrhoea
Definition:
(n.) Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge.
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(1) Possible physiological mechanisms causing lactation amenorrhoea are discussed.
(2) This study suggests that the abnormal pituitary hormone secretion in patients with amenorrhoea may in part be caused by an increased dopaminergic activity.
(3) Eleven women with secondary amenorrhoea and hyperprolactinaemia were treated with lisuride, a new semisynthetic ergot derivative.
(4) Hypothalamic-pituitary activity was investigated in 20 women with primary amenorrhoea, in whom gonadal dysgenesis and lower Müllerian duct anomalies had been excluded.
(5) A review of our current knowledge of the mechanism underlying lactation amenorrhoea suggests that there is a causal relationship between high prolactin levels and the absence of ovarian activity.
(6) Eleven women with amenorrhoea after taking oral contraceptives were studied.
(7) Women with lower E2 values, consisting of two groups: WHO I (hypogonadotropic, clomiphen-negative amenorrhoea) and WHO III (hypergonadotropic amenorrhoea).
(8) As to side-effects only amenorrhoea was observed in 92%, spotting in 8%, an increase of body weight (1-6 kg) in 83% of the treated women.
(9) By means of pelvic ultrasonography, a multifollicular ovarian appearance was observed in women with weight-loss-related amenorrhoea.
(10) The clinical, radiological and endocrine findings in thirty-five women with hyperprolactinaemia and amenorrhoea are described.
(11) Menstrual cycle alterations are most likely caused by subtle changes in the episodic secretion pattern of luteinising hormone (LH) as have been found in sedentary women with hypothalamic amenorrhoea as well as in athletes after very demanding training.
(12) Six women with long-standing functional amenorrhoea were treated with 5 microgram of D-Ser (TBU)6 LH-RH-EA twice daily for 14 days.
(13) After a median observation time of 37 months the relapse-free and overall survival times were significantly longer for patients with permanent amenorrhoea.
(14) The results of the ultra low doses of synthetic LH-RH, 1.56, 3.125 and 6.25 mug, are presented in 8 normal women during the first week of the menstrual cycle and 14 patients with secondary amenorrhoea.
(15) The hormone concentrations of 17 amenorrhoeic adolescent girls, with no apparent environmental factor associated with the secondary amenorrhoea, were evaluated.
(16) No significant correlation was found between the androgen level and the degree of hirsutism or the frequency of disturbances of menstruation apart from amenorrhoea.
(17) Patients consult late for this amenorrhoea-galactorrhoea syndrome associated with intracranial hypertension and reductions in the field of vision.
(18) Basal levels of luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) in serum and their response to the luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LH-RH) were measured in a group of patients with functional amenorrhoea.
(19) An 18 year female patient with short stature, amenorrhoea and poorly developed secondary sexual characteristics, has subnormal oestrogen excretion and increased levels of plasma gonadotrophin.
(20) These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that post-oral contraceptive amenorrhoea is the result of continuing suppression of normal hypothalamic pituitary feedback systems after the sex steroids have been stopped.