Rymer J

Medical management of endometriosis and fibroids involves manipulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis to alter the balance of sex hormones thereby inhibiting disease progression and ameliorate symptoms. Unfortunately, resultant …

Gonadotrophin receptor hormone analogues (GnRHa) have been used in a range of sex hormone-dependent disorders. In the management of premenstrual syndrome, they can completely abolish symptoms. The success of GnRHa in the treatment of endome…

The authors present a case of a 51-year-old woman with endometriosis who developed immune thrombocytopenic purpura. Her platelets dropped to 2×10(9)/l, and she had haemorrhage into her right endometrioma causing a large pelvic haematoma. Sh…

(2000). Which is the appropriate hormone replacement therapy after sub-total hysterectomy? Climacteric: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 65-67.