Possibilities of sterility therapy in a patient with a premature menopause due to an X-chromosomal anomaly - a case report

Maturitas. 2000 Dec 29;37(2):129-32. doi: 10.1016/s0378-5122(00)00168-7.

Abstract

Our report concerns a patient with a climacterium praecox and an X-chromosomal anomaly (86% 46, XX; 7% 47, XXX; 7% 45, X0) desiring to give birth. She conceived once after down-regulation of the gonadotrophins by means of a cyclical hormone replacement therapy followed by gonadotrophin stimulation, as well as a second time under down-regulation with a GnRH-analogue and gonadotrophin stimulation. On the basis of the case report and of the literature, a possible interval therapy in such a patient, especially one even with increasing ovarian insufficiency, will be portrayed and discussed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Down-Regulation
  • Estradiol / analogs & derivatives*
  • Estradiol / therapeutic use*
  • Female
  • Fertility Agents, Female / therapeutic use*
  • Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone / analogs & derivatives
  • Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone / physiology
  • Humans
  • Infertility, Female / drug therapy*
  • Infertility, Female / etiology
  • Infertility, Female / genetics
  • Menotropins / therapeutic use*
  • Pregnancy
  • Primary Ovarian Insufficiency / complications
  • Primary Ovarian Insufficiency / genetics*
  • Sex Chromosome Aberrations*
  • X Chromosome*

Substances

  • Fertility Agents, Female
  • Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone
  • Estradiol
  • Menotropins