4. Introduction
Menstrual disorders and abnormal uterine bleeding
(AUB) are among the most frequent gynecologic
complaints.
Menstrual disorders frequently affect the quality of life of
adolescents and young adult women and can be indicators of
serious underlying problems.
5. Normal Menstrual Cycle
The normal menstrual cycle is a tightly coordinated cycle of
stimulatory and inhibitory effects that results in the release
of a single mature oocyte from a pool of hundreds of
thousands of primordial oocytes.
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7. Classification of menstrual disorders
1. Amenorrhea
Primary amenorrhea: Lack of sexual development ; Delayed sexual
development (infantilism) ; Without delay in sexual development-
malformations of the uterus: aplasia of the vagina and uterus.
Secondary amenorrhea
2. Hyperprolactinemia
3. Dysfunctional bleeding
Ovulatory bleeding
Anovulatory bleeding
8. 4. Neuroendocrine syndromes
premenstrual syndrome; menopausal syndrome; polycystic (sclerocystic) ovary
syndrome, Sheehan's syndrome.
Certain medications can cause menstrual periods to stop,
including some types of: • Antipsychotics • Cancer chemotherapy •
Antidepressants • Blood pressure drugs • Allergy medications
9. Amenorrhea
absence of menses in adult women within 6 months.
Amenorrhea is not any dependent disease, but a
symptom of many diseases, causing disorders of
menstrual function regulation on different levels.
10. Forms of amenorrhea:
Primary amenorrhea is the absence of menstrual function from puberty age.
Secondary amenorrhea is the suppression of menstrual function in woman who has
menstruated before.
Physiological amenorrhea is absence of menses before puberty period, during
pregnancy and lactation, in menopause period.
pathological amenorrhea can be provoked by many causes, especially by general
state changes, most frequently by endocrine diseases.
There are different forms of pathological amenorrhea: hypothalamic , pituitary,
ovarian and uterine ones according to the level of menstrual function regulation
disturbance.
11. False amenorrhea —absence of menstrual blood excretion because of cyclic
changes presence in organism. False amenorrhea is a clinical sign of genital
organs development abnormalities — thresia of hymen or vagina, when blood,
having no exit, is accumulated in vagina, uterus and uterine tubes.
True amenorrhea - absence of cyclic changes in women's organism , most
frequently associated with acute insufficiency of sexual hormones.
14. A dysfunctional uterine bleeding (DUB) is the bleeding, not associated with
organic diseases of women's genitals, interrupted pregnancy or systemic
diseases of the organism.
Classification of dysfunctional uterine bleeding according to
pathogeneses:
I. Ovulative (two-phased) :
• hypoestrogen
• hypogestagen
• hyperestrogen
II. Anovulative (monophased) :
• hypoestrogen
• hyperestrogen
15. According to patient's age:
juvenile,
reproductive age
climacteric,
menopausal bleeding.
According to onset time:
cyclic
non-cyclic
21. Polycystic ovarian syndrom
PCOS is also known as Stein-Levental syndrome.
Structural changes of the ovaries:
-Ovaries are enlarged in size 2-6 times on both
sides.
-Hyperplasia of stroma and theca cells.
-Presence of big amount of follicles with cystic
changes and atresia.
Ovarian capsule is thick