Test 1 Flashcards
What week do male and female morphological characteristics develop?
7th weeks
When does ovarian development begin?
12th weeks
MC cause of 46 XX DSD?
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
What are androgen insensitivity syndrome at risk of developing?
Malignancy by age 50
Homologous to the male scrotum
Labia majora
Labia major can get ____
Varicosities
What is the treatment for delayed puberty?
Gonadal steroids and wait
What hormone makes the endometrial lining grow and what secretes it?
Estrogen the follicle in response to FSH
What is the hormone that’s responsible for LH and what secretes it and prompts it?
Estradiol and its created from androsteine that was secreted by the theca cells and converted by the granulosa cells.
What is the level for the LH surge?
Estriadiol of 200 pg/mL for 50 hours
What is it that produces HCg?
Trophoblast
What is the MC secondary cause of amenorrhea?
Pregnancy
Congenital GnRH deficiency?
Kallman’s associated w/ anosmia
What is the second MC cause of secondary amenorrhea?
Anovulatory cycles
What is the progesterone withdrawal test?
You have to have a withdrawal of progesterone to have a withdrawal bleed. If you bleed is there a lining, and is the outflow patent?
