What's the difference between hypermenorrhea and menorrhagia?
Hypermenorrhea
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Menorrhagia
Definition:
(n.) Profuse menstruation.
(n.) Any profuse bleeding from the uterus; Metrorrhagia.
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(1) The costs of achieving growth may also include cephalopelvic disproportion in girls becoming pregnant and increased risk of menorrhagia.
(2) We describe a 42-year-old woman who developed superior sagittal and left transverse sinus thrombosis associated with prolonged epsilon-aminocaproic acid therapy for menorrhagia.
(3) Women with other pelvic disease such as endometriosis, adenomyosis, and myometrial hyperplasia also often exhibited genuine menorrhagia that responded to mefenamic acid, whereas others were found to have normal blood loss even when the history was convincing.
(4) Endometrial ablation performed with the Nd:YAG laser was developed to treat patients with chronic menorrhagia as an alternative to hysterectomy.
(5) Mefenamic acid proved to be a potent and efficacious agent in the control of unexplained menorrhagia.
(6) Hysterectomy for menorrhagia seems to alleviate psychiatric disorder in many women who had psychiatric disorder before operation.
(7) Hysteroscopic endometrial resection can replace hysterectomy for most patients with menorrhagia who have a normal size uterus.
(8) Oral contraceptives may be of value if there is menorrhagia.
(9) Treatment with flurbiprofen (100 mg twice a day for 5 days), tranexamic acid (1.5 gm three times a day for 3 days and 1 gm twice a day for another 2 days), and an intrauterine contraceptive device releasing 20 micrograms levonorgestrel per day was compared in women with idiopathic menorrhagia.
(10) These findings conflict with reports suggesting that excessive intrauterine fibrinolysis, which may play a part in menorrhagia, is associated with raised serum F.D.P.
(11) Menorrhagia was a serious problem necessitating repeated transfusions and hormonal therapy.
(12) While menorrhagia may be due to the use of IUDs or to systemic and local disorders, most cases of this condition are not associated with any abnormality.
(13) The patient was initially seen for right lower quadrant abdominal pain and menorrhagia.
(14) In women with abnormal constitutional haemostasis, establishment of anovulatory cycles by means of oestro-progestatives prescribed to combat menorrhagia often lessens the seriousness of these epistaxes.
(15) Most patients with menorrhagia have no significant uterine abnormality and the woman's interpretation of her blood loss is insufficient and unreliable.
(16) Whether oral anticoagulant therapy in women is also associated with a higher incidence of menorrhagia is unknown.
(17) The overall incidence of dysmenorrhoea and menorrhagia amongst the athletes was 35% and 41%, respectively.
(18) The beneficial side effects of oral contraceptives are that the incidence of menorrhagia, benign breast neoplasm, dysmenorrhea, iron-deficiency anemia, premenstrual tension, acne, and ovarian cysts are lower in OC users.
(19) A new technique is described for the treatment of menorrhagia by heating the whole of the endometrial cavity of the uterus.
(20) A possible explanation of the results is given: there is a higher rate of coagulation and fibrinolysis in the endometrium of women with menorrhagia compared with women with normal blood losses.