TY - JOUR
T1 - Gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist treatment for severe menorrhagia in patients with contraindications to surgery
AU - Vercellini, Paolo
AU - Ferrari, Augusto
AU - D'Alberton, Alberto
AU - Motta, Tiziano
AU - Maggi, Renato
AU - Molteni, Piero
PY - 1992/6/16
Y1 - 1992/6/16
N2 - Four patients with heavy menorrhagia, severe iron-deficiency anemia and contraindications to surgery were treated with a gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist in a depot formulation. At 2 months of therapy they were all amenorrheic, and at 6 months the hematologic values had improved markedly. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists may obviate emergency surgery in patients at high surgical risk or could constitute the first line of sequential therapeutic regimens, once general health conditions have improved.
AB - Four patients with heavy menorrhagia, severe iron-deficiency anemia and contraindications to surgery were treated with a gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist in a depot formulation. At 2 months of therapy they were all amenorrheic, and at 6 months the hematologic values had improved markedly. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists may obviate emergency surgery in patients at high surgical risk or could constitute the first line of sequential therapeutic regimens, once general health conditions have improved.
KW - Gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist
KW - Menorrhagia
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U2 - 10.1016/0028-2243(92)90197-7
DO - 10.1016/0028-2243(92)90197-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 1535604
AN - SCOPUS:0026653421
VL - 45
SP - 70
EP - 72
JO - European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
JF - European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
SN - 0028-2243
IS - 1
ER -