Reproductive and Sexual Health Flashcards
Investigation to confirm menopause
LH and FSH
2 seperate occasions
Management Principles for menopause
Stress management
HRT
Manage menorrhagia
Delivery of HRT: cyclical progesterone
Oestrogen always
Progesterone last 14 days of cycle
IF still menstruating
Presentation of menopause (4)
Hot flushes
Oligomenorrhoea/Menorrhagia
Insomnia
Mood swings
What is adenomyosis
Endometrium in the myometrium
Presentation of adenomyosis (2)
Dysmenorrhoea
Menorrhagia
Causes of endometritis (4)
Neisseria
Chlamydia
TB
IUD
Association of chronic endometritis
PID
Presentation of endometritis
Abnormal bleeding
Management of endometritis/PID (2)
Analgesia - NSAIDs
Empirical antibiotics
- If IUD associated removal of IUD is encouraged
What is the growth stimulus for fibroids?
Oestrogen-dependent benign tumour
What is a polyp?
Association?
Endometrial overgrowth
Menopause
Presentation of polyp
Abnormal bleeding
Abnormal discharge
Types of epithelial ovarian tumours
Serous
Mucinous
Endometriod
Clear Cell
What is seen in serous ovarian tumours
Psammoma bodies
What is the origin of most cases of serous ovarian tumour?
Tubal
Association of mucinous ovarian tumour
Pseudomyxoma peritoni
Associations of endometriod and clear cell ovarian tumour
Endometriosis
Lynch Syndrome
Risk factors for ovarian tumour
Nulliparity
Increasing age
Types of sex cord and stromal tumours
Fibroma
Theca cell (sertoli and leydig cell tumours)
Granulosa cell
Types of germ cell tumour
Yolk sac
Teratoma
Choriocarcinoma
Dysgerminoma
Presentation of theca cell tumour
Increased production of androgens
= hirsutism
What is seen in granulosa cell tumours
Call-exner bodies
Hormonal feature of granulosa cell tumours
Production of oestrogen
Associations of fibroma
Meig’s syndrome
Requirement for something to be a teratoma
Must contain all three embryological layers
Ix findings in teratoma
May see calcifications on KUB
What is seen in yolk sac tumour
Schiller-duval bodies
Similar to dysgerminoma =
Testicular seminoma