[Replacement hormonal therapy: effects on ECG parameters in postmenopausal women]

Ter Arkh. 1998;70(10):33-7.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

Aim: To examine postmenopausal women free of organic cardiovascular lesions receiving replacement hormonotherapy (RHT) for ECG abnormalities, control of the detected cardiovascular defects.

Materials and methods: ECG was conducted in 61 postmenopausal women before and during RHT with climen and climonorm.

Results: ECG registers frequent functional abnormalities in postmenopausal women. A 3-month RHT improved the patients' condition. ECG parameters improved on RHT month 9.

Conclusion: RHT of postmenopausal women corrects general condition of such patients as well as functional ECG parameters.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Androgen Antagonists / therapeutic use
  • Cardiovascular Diseases / prevention & control
  • Cyproterone Acetate / therapeutic use
  • Drug Combinations
  • Drug Therapy, Combination
  • Electrocardiography / drug effects*
  • Estradiol / analogs & derivatives
  • Estradiol / therapeutic use
  • Estrogens, Conjugated (USP) / therapeutic use
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Hormone Replacement Therapy*
  • Humans
  • Levonorgestrel / therapeutic use
  • Middle Aged
  • Postmenopause / drug effects
  • Postmenopause / physiology*
  • Progesterone Congeners / therapeutic use

Substances

  • Androgen Antagonists
  • Drug Combinations
  • Estrogens, Conjugated (USP)
  • Progesterone Congeners
  • estradiol valerate, cyproterone acetate drug combination
  • Cyproterone Acetate
  • Estradiol
  • Levonorgestrel