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Menorrhagia

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Heavy cyclical bleeding

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Polymenorrhoea

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Normal duration and flow but shortened cycle with intervals less than 25 days

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Metorrhagia

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Uterine bleeding independent of menstrual pattern

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Menometorrhagia

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Increased flow during menstruation and between periods

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Chronic AUB

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More than 6 months

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Acute AUB

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Severe enough to require immediate intervention

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HMB

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Heavy menstrual bleeding that affects quality of life

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Objective Menorrhagia (HMB)

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  • blood loss > 80ml per cycle

- 60% have iron deficiency anaemia

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Subjective Menorrhagia

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50% have bold loss in normal limits

Still considered abnormal

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Normal blood loss

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10-55 ml

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Causes of AUB

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  • polyps
  • adenomyosis
  • leiomyomas
  • malignancy
  • coagulopathy
  • ovulation dysfunction
  • endometrial disorders
  • iatrogenic
  • not classified
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Types of leiomyomas

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  • sub mucosal
  • other (intramural and sub serosal)
  • hybrid
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Feature of coagulopathy

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One of:
- postpartum haemorrhage
- surgical related bleeding
- dental bleeding
Two or more of:
- bruising 
- epistaxis
- frequent gum bleeding
- fam history of bleeding symptoms
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What are LOOP events?

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  • luteal out of phase events

Premature development of estradiol-producing follicles in the luteal phase

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Things causing endometrial disorders

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  • deficiencies in the local production of vasoconstrictors (endothelin1)
  • increased prod of vasodilatory prostaglandins (prostacyclin)
  • accelerated lysis of endometrial clot (plasminogen activator)
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Things causing iatrogenic AUB

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  • break through bleed

- mirena

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What is used for endometrial sampling?

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Pipelle

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Who do you take an endometrial sample from?

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  • over 40’with irreg bleeding
  • risk factors for endometrial Ca
    Prolonged chronic anovulatin
    Obese
    Fam Hx of Ca
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Who do you refer for hysteroscopy?

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  • chronic irreg bleeding
  • peri-menopause with abnormal bleeding
  • US suggests fibroid or polyp
  • post- menopause ET >5mm or ongoing bleeding with ET <5 mm
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How to hormonally manage an acute bleeding episode

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  • high dose oestrogen for atrophic endometrium
  • high dose OCP if bleeding not too severe
  • progesterone for anovulatory bleeding
  • cyclokapron (antifibrinolytic)
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Medical management of AUB

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  • antifibrinolytic drugs (tranexamic acid)
  • NSAIDS (mefenamic acid)
  • low dose Monophasic oral contraceptives
  • progesterone
  • mirena
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Mechanism of tranexamic acid

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Prevents action so plasminogen

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Mechanism of mefenamic acid

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Altered ratio of prostaglandin E2 to F2

- increased ratio of prostacyclin to thromboxane

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Mirena method of action

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  • reduction in endometrial prostaglandin synthesis
  • reduction in endometrial fibrinolytic activity
  • production of an inactive endometrium
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When is endometrial ablation done
- HMB with uterus <3 cm and no desired fertility
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Types of endometrial ablation
``` First gen - electrocautery Second gen - microwave endometrial ablation - hydrothermablation ```
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What does UAE stand for?
Uterine artery embolisation
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When is UAE, myomectomy or hysterectomy done?
HMB with fibroids >3 cm
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When is hysterectomy done?
- completed family - over 45 - fAiled medical treatment - failed endometrial ablation - failed myomectomy
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What is a haematinic?
Stimulates the production of red blood cells
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AUB-O
Abnormal menstrual bleeding with a disorder of ovulation (endometrial sampling NB- assoc with endometrial hyperplasia)
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When is normal vag discharge least acidic?
Days prior to and during menstruation
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Physiological causes of changes in discharge
- menstrual cycle - emotional stressors - nutritional status - pregnancy - medications - sexual arousal
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Trichomoniasis discharge
Yellow/green, offensive, frothy
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What constitutes the adnexa?
Fallopian tubes, ovaries, round ligaments
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Most common pelviabdominal mass in reproductive age
- functional or physiological cysts
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Things to describe about a mass
- size (weeks) - surface - consistency - tender - mobile or fixed - ascites - cannot get below the mass
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Starting point in mass differential
- gynae (pregnant or non-pregnant) | - non gynae (urinary tract or bowel)
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Types of physiological cysts
- follicular - corpus lutuem - theca-lutein
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Why do follicular cysts occur?
- failure of the mature follicle to ovulate or - failure of the immature follicle to reabsorb or undergo atresia (Asymptomatic)
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Why corpus lutuem cysts occur
- haemorrhage into the corpus lutuem 2 days after ovulation - can rupture and mimic tubal pregnancies - occur late in cycle - assoc with acute pain
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Why do theca lutein cysts occur?
- overstimulation of ovaries by hCG
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Features suggestive of ovarian malignancy
- bilateral - cysts >8cm - multiloculated - thick walled - papillary projections - ascites
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Types of ovarian neoplasia
- celomic epithelium - germ cell - specialized gonadal stroma - non-specific mesenchyme - metastatic to ovary
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Possible tubal masses
- ectopic pregnancy - pyosalpinx - hydrosalpinx - tubo-ovarian abscess - para tubal cyst
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Where do leiomyomas originate?
Müllerian duct
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Appearance of a fibroid
- round, firm, white - pseudo capsule - whorled. - grow gradually - relatively avascular - undergo degeneration (hyaline, red, sarcomatous)
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What is a didelphic uterus?
- double uterus with 2 cervices and 2 vaginas
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Factors associated with cervical cancer
- early sexual debut - multiple partners - other STIs - smoking - OCP
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Symptoms of cervical cancer
- abnormal vag bleeding (postcoital) - malodorous discharge (infection) - pelvic pain, weight loss, renal failure, fistula
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Patterns of spread of cervical cancer
- direct - haematogenous - lymphatic (obturator nodes)
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Treatment of micro-invasive cervical Ca
- cone biopsy | - simple hysterectomy
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What is removed in a radical hysterectomy?
Uterus, parametria, cuff of vagina, pelvic lymph nodes
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Vaccines for cervical Ca
- bivalent (cervarix) | - quadrivalent (gardasil)
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What does VIA stand for
Visual inspection with acetic acid
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Features of ideal contraception
- forgettable - reversible - usable - buy able - acceptable - invisible - infallible
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What does UPSI stand for?
Unprotected sexual intercourse
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Types of emergency contraception
- progesterone only (Norlevo up to 72 hrs) - combined regimen (2 tablets 12 hrly) - CuT (up to 120 hrs)
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At what concentration can a pregnancy test work?
20mU (7-10 days after conception)
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Riffs of acute pregnancy related pain
- rupture of ectopic - miscarriage - pre term labour - fibroid degeneration
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Adnexal disorders that cause pelvic pain
- haemorrhagic functional ovarian cysts - torsion of adnexa - twisted para-ovarian cyst - rupture of functional cyst
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Causes of recurrent pelvic pain
- mittelshmerz (ovulation pain) | - primary or secondary dysmenorrhea
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Where can pain refer in ectopic?
Right shoulder
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How to diagnose ectopic pregnancy
- bhcg more than 2000 - empty uterus on US - adnexae mass
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Medical management of ectopic
Methotrexate (anti-folate)
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Difference between gonococcal and chlamydial PID
Gonococcal is acute, chlamydial is insidious
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Dyschezia
Painful defeacation
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Causes of chronic pelvic pain
- endometriosis - adenomyosis (endometrium in myometrium) - adhesions - pelvic congestion - salpingo-oopheritis - ovarian remnant syndrome - fibroids - IBS
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Type of pain with adhesions
- non-cyclical | - increases with coitus
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Features of pelvic congestion
Pain starts with ovulation to end if menses | - bulky uterus with enlarged tender ovaries
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What does TAH BSO stand for?
Total abdominal hysterectomy bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy
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Where is pain felt with ovarian remnant syndrome
Lateral pelvic pain
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Definition of rape
Any person who unlawfully and intentionally commits an act of sexual penetration with another person without such persons consent
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Clip used to do tubal ligation
Filshee clip
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What is fitz- Hugh- Curtis syndrome?
A thinning of cervical mucus to allow bacteria from the vagina into the uterus and oviducts, causing infection and inflammation
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Another name for vaginal reconstruction
Colporhapphy
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What is colpocleisis?
Closure of the vagina
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Methods of TOP
- vacuum curettage - medical - dilatation and evacuation - induction of labour - hysterotomy - hysterectomy
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Definition of TOP
The separation and expulsion by surigcal or medical means of the contents of the uterus of a pregnant woman
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When can medical TOP be performed
Up to 9 weeks
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Drugs used in medical TOP
Mifepristone - progesterone antagonist Misoprostol - prostaglandin analogue (stim myometrium contraction)
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ERPOC
Evacuation of retained products of conception
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Amsel's diagnostic criteria for bacterial vaginosis
3out of 4 - homogenous vaginal discharge - fishy odour when mixed with pat assign hydroxide - clue cells present - raised vaginal PH
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Definition of menopause
Permanent cessation of menstraution due to loss of ovarian follicular activity - 12 consecutive months of amenorrhea without other cause
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Definition of premature ovarian failure
Menopause before 40

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