This clinical study is based is based on 79 cases of amenorrhea patients visited to Keimyung University Hospital from Sep. 1988 to June 1990.
There will be discussion on etiology and treatment.
@ES The result are as follows.
@EN 1. Out of 79 cases, primary amenorrhea were noted in 10 cases(12.7%) and second amenorrhea in 69 cases(87.3%).
2. The most prevalent age group was 25~29 years(45.6%).
3. All 34 most prevalent with secondary amenorrhea have normal 46XX constitution. Of the 10 cases with primary amenorrhea 3 cases(30.0%) show 45X.
4. The most common cause of primary amenorrhea was Turner syndrome(30.0%), idiopathic (30.0%) and then congenital anomaly(20.0%), hyperprolactinemia(20.0%) and Kallmann syndrome(10.0%) in order.
5. The most common cause of secondary amenorrhea was premature menopause (24.6%), idiopathic (24.6%) and then hyperprolactinemia (16.0%), obesity (7.3%), Asherman syndrome (7.3%), adrenal androgenization (5.8%) and stress-induced (5.8%) in order.
6. Success rate in premature menopause was 14.3% by treatment for 3~6 months, 61.5% in idiopathic 90.0% in hyperprolactinemia, 50.0% in obesity, 33.3% in Ashermann syndrome, 100.0% in adrenal androgenization and stress-induced.
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