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Premature Ovarian Failure and Epilepsy [PDF]
Andalas Obstetrics and Gynecology Journal, 2021 Premature ovarian failure (POF) or premature menopause refers to development of amenorrhoea due to cessation of ovarian function before the age of 40 years.
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Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America, 1998 In 1% of women, premature ovarian failure develops by 40 years of age, a condition causing amenorrhea, infertility, sex steroid deficiency, and elevated gonadotropins. Early loss of ovarian function has significant psychosocial sequelae and major health implications.
Kalantaridou, S. N. +2 more
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Premature ovarian failure in a woman with a balanced 15;21 translocation: a case report
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2011 Introduction A case of premature ovarian failure with concomitant findings of Robertsonian translocation between 15 and 21 chromosomes is reported here.
Asgari Zahra +3 more
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Karyotype Evaluation in Patients with Premature Ovarian Failure [PDF]
Forbes Tıp Dergisi, 2020 INTRODUCTION: Chromosome anomalies are one of the major causes of premature ovarian failure and the importance of chromosome analysis in reproductive management has been confirmed.
Aslı Akdöner +2 more
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Premature Ovarian Failure Is Not Premature Menopause
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2000 Abstract: Normal menopause occurs at an average age of 50 and results from ovarian follicle depletion. Normal menopause is an irreversible condition, whereas premature ovarian failure is characterized by intermittent ovarian function in half of these young women.
Kalantaridou, S. N., Nelson, L. M.
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BMC Women's Health, 2002 Background Spontaneous premature ovarian failure presents most commonly with secondary amenorrhea. Young women with the disorder are infertile and experience the symptoms and sequelae of estrogen deficiency.
Nelson Lawrence M +4 more
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Mutant Cohesin in Premature Ovarian Failure [PDF]
New England Journal of Medicine, 2014 Premature ovarian failure is a major cause of female infertility. The genetic causes of this disorder remain unknown in most patients. Using whole-exome sequence analysis of a large consanguineous family with inherited premature ovarian failure, we identified a homozygous 1-bp deletion inducing a frameshift mutation in STAG3 on chromosome 7.
Caburet, Sandrine +13 more
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Ovarian antibodies as detected by indirect immunofluorescence are unreliable in the diagnosis of autoimmune premature ovarian failure: a controlled evaluation [PDF]
BMC Women's Health, 2003 Background Ovarian antibodies as detected by indirect immunofluorescence have been used to detect ovarian autoimmunity, but to our knowledge the rate of false positive findings using this method has never been reported.
Nelson Lawrence M +3 more
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Premature ovarian failure risk factors in an Iranian population
International Journal of General Medicine, 2012 Alieh Ghassemzadeh1,2, Laya Farzadi1,2, Elaheh Beyhaghi1,21Women’s Reproductive Health Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; 2Alzahra University Hospital, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tabriz ...
Ghassemzadeh A, Farzadi L, Beyhaghi E
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Premature ovarian failure: morphological and ultrastructural aspects
São Paulo Medical JournalThe authors documented by means of light and transmission electron microscopy that the ovaries of women with premature ovarian failure (POF) displayed dense connective tissue and rare corpora albicantia.
Mauro Abi Haidar +5 more
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