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	Menorrhagia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Menorrhagia is an abnormally heavy and prolonged menstrual period.
		Causes may be due to abnormal blood clotting, disruption of normal hormonal regulation of periods or disorders of the endometrial lining of the womb.
		A definitive treatment for menorrhagia is to perform hysterectomy removal of the womb.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Menorrhagia (1133 words)

	Diagnose-Me: Condition: Menorrhagia (Heavy Periods)
		Menorrhagia is the term for excessive menstrual bleeding i.e.
		Chronic menorrhagia and PMS is usually the result of deficient progesterone secretion or constant adipose-released estradiol from obesity or recent substantial weight loss.
		Although bleeding time and prothrombin levels in women with menorrhagia are typically normal, the use of vitamin K (often in the form of chlorophyll) does have limited research support.
	www.diagnose-me.com /cond/C384826.html (3021 words)

	dreddyclinic.com - Menorrhagia
		Menorrhagia is the medical term for excessive bleeding at the time of the menstrual period, either in number of days or amount of blood or both.
		Menorrhagia caused by certain conditions involving hormonal imbalance, such as thyroid disease, often can be controlled with hormone medications.
		Menorrhagia is a well-known side effect of using an intrauterine device for birth control.
	www.dreddyclinic.com /findinformation/mm/menorrhagia.htm (1361 words)

	Uterine Conditions: Menorrhagia
		Known as menorrhagia or dysfunctional uterine bleeding, this condition is most common among women over age 45, although it can also affect adolescent girls who are beginning to menstruate.
		Menorrhagia often stems from an imbalance of the hormones that control menstruation, resulting in "anovulatory bleeding," or menstruation without ovulation.
		Menorrhagia is also associated with polycystic ovary syndrome (the accumulation of many incompletely developed follicles in the ovaries).
	www.healthywomen.org /UterineHealthGuide/pages/page6b1.html (457 words)

	Initial Management of Menorrhagia
		There are wide variations in the drugs prescribed in general practice for the management of menorrhagia, in the referral patterns for this condition, and in population-based rates of hysterectomy.
		The aim of this Guideline is to provide recommendations to aid general practitioners and gynaecologists in the initial management of menorrhagia, whether this is initiated in a primary care setting or after referral to a hospital outpatient department.
		It is anticipated that there will be health benefits for women complaining of menorrhagia in the form of effective investigation of their presenting problem without delay, more information provision, and appropriate treatment and referral to a specialist if necessary.
	www.rcog.org.uk /index.asp?PageID=698 (1397 words)

	MJA: Wood, Menorrhagia: a clinical update
		Menorrhagia is defined as a blood loss of 80 mL or more per period.
		Menorrhagia is still one of the more common reasons for women to be referred to a gynaecologist, and is the main presenting symptom in 38% of Australian women having hysterectomies.
		Fraser IS, McCarron G, Markham R. Objective measurement of menstrual blood loss in women with a complaint of menorrhagia associated with pelvic disease or coagulation disorder.
	www.mja.com.au /public/issues/nov4/wood/wood.html (2422 words)

	The Management of Menorrhagia in Secondary Care
		Menorrhagia is defined, for the purpose of this guideline, as a complaint of heavy cyclical menstrual bleeding over several consecutive cycles.
		Subjectively, menorrhagia is defined as a complaint of excessive menstrual blood loss occurring over several consecutive cycles in a woman of reproductive years.
		The aim of this guideline is to provide recommendations to aid gynaecologists in the management of menorrhagia after referral to the hospital outpatient department and to improve the quality of care provided for women with menorrhagia.
	www.rcog.org.uk /index.asp?PageID=692 (2025 words)

	Menorrhagia (heavy menstrual bleeding)
		Menorrhagia is the medical term for excessive or prolonged menstrual bleeding or both.
		Menorrhagia is the most common cause of anemia in premenopausal women.
		If you have drug-induced menorrhagia from taking hormone medication, you and your doctor may be able to treat the condition by changing or stopping your medication.
	www.cnn.com /HEALTH/library/DS/00394.html (2095 words)

	Medical Interventions in Puberty Menorrhagia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In all cases of puberty menorrhagia it is mandatory to exclude pregnancy, especially an incomplete abortion or ectopic pregnancy.
		The reported incidence of subjective menorrhagia in myxoedema varies from 32-80% and menorrhagia may not infrequently be the presenting complaint (Scoot and Massey 1964).
		Menorrhagia or irregular bleeding in genital TB is probably due to ovarian involvement, pelvic congestion or endometrial lesions.
	www.bhj.org /html/medical_interventions_121.htm (2675 words)

	Menorrhagia, heavy menstrual periods - heavy bleeding treatment
		Usually menorrhagia is not a sign of an underlying medical problem and can be easily treated.
		Menorrhagia is defined as a loss of blood of more than 80ml, compared with the normal amount of 20-60ml.
		It may be suggested as a treatment for menorrhagia, and may be necessary if there is cancer or pre-cancerous growths in the uterus.
	hcd2.bupa.co.uk /fact_sheets/html/menorrhagia.html (1175 words)

	CeMCOR: Articles: Managing Menorrhagia Without Surgery
		Menorrhagia is most common in adolescence and in perimenopause—both are times of the lifecycle in which estrogen exposure exceeds and is out of balance with progesterone.
		Despite lack of multiple trials, based on what is known of the natural history of menorrhagia, and that increasing progesterone exposure causes a decrease estrogen receptors, progesterone or progestin therapy are appropriate for the outpatient treatment of menorrhagia.
		Thankfully there are two further acute medical therapies for menorrhagia that have been shown to be both safe and effective in controlled trials and have been tested in randomized trials in comparison with hysterectomy or endometrial ablation.
	www.cemcor.ubc.ca /articles/misc/managing_menorrhagia.shtml (2915 words)

	Menorrhagia: Overlooked Causes of Heavy Menstrual Bleeding
		Menorrhagia is defined as a condition of excessive blood loss during menstruation.
		Menorrhagia is also one of the major symptoms of hypothyroidism.
		Checking for a vitamin K deficiency and other known causes of menorrhagia would be a logical first step consideration in the treatment of the disorder, and perhaps would help to decrease the amount of unnecessary hysterectomies done in the U.S. each year.
	www.ctds.info /menorrhagia.html (2940 words)

	Menorrhagia
		Menorrhagia does not produce symptoms unless blood loss is significant, at which time symptoms of anemia, such as fatigue, may occur.
		In a study of women with menorrhagia who took 25,000 IU of vitamin A twice per day for 15 days, 93% showed significant improvement and 58% had a complete normalization of menstrual blood loss.
		The cause of IUD-induced menstrual blood loss is different from that of other types of menorrhagia; therefore, it’s possible that vitamin E supplements might not help with menorrhagia not associated with IUD use.
	www.pccnaturalmarkets.com /health/Concern/Menorrhagia.htm (825 words)

	Menorrhagia
		This type of menorrhagia is a response to erratic hormonal activity.
		In rare cases, menorrhagia is caused due to deficiency of vitamin K. Cancers of the female reproductive organs such as cervix cancer, ovarian cancer and uterine cancer cause excessive bleeding.
		Treatment for menorrhagia is decided on the extent of the condition as well as the underlying cause.
	www.targetwoman.com /articles/menorrhagia.html (930 words)

	Menorrhagia Due to High Estrogen Levels
		Menorrhagia: Overlooked Causes and Treatments" that was formerly at this URL.
		There are a number of possible causes of menorrhagia.
		A deficiency of vitamin K is a well documented, yet not well known, cause of menorrhagia.
	www.mindspring.com /~sandysimmons/menorrhagia.html (1271 words)

	Menstruation: Heavy Bleeding (Menorrhagia) - UMMC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For example, women with a family history of bleeding disorders might have menorrhagia but think it is normal because it is the same as their mother's or sister's.
		OCs are often used to regulate periods in women with menstrual disorders, including menorrhagia (heavy bleeding), dysmenorrhea (severe pain), and amenorrhea (absence of periods).
		It suppresses estrogen, and therefore menstruation, and is used (sometimes in combination with an oral contraceptive), to reduce dysmenorrhea, menorrhagia, fibroid size, and symptoms of endometriosis.
	www.umm.edu /patiented/doc80full.html (8865 words)

	eMedicine - Menorrhagia : Article by Julia A Shaw, MD
		Background: Menorrhagia is menstruation at regular cycle intervals but with excessive flow and duration.
		Menorrhagia is one of the most common gynecologic complaints in contemporary gynecology.
		As explained in the Introduction, organic diseases may affect either the hormonal or hematologic pathways that are involved in the manifestation of menorrhagia.
	www.emedicine.com /med/topic1449.htm (6342 words)

	Menorrhagia (heavy menstruation) - Diet-and-Health
		Menorrhagia is defined as excessively heavy or prolonged uterine bleeding, which may be caused by medical problems or hormone imbalances.
		Because hormone imbalances are often present in adolescents and in women approaching menopause, this type of menorrhagia - known as dysfunctional uterine bleeding - is fairly common in these groups.
		In menorrhagia, some women have very prolonged blood loss, with only days before the next episode.
	www.diet-and-health.net /articles.php?cont=heavy+menstruation (414 words)

	menorrhagia
		The point at which these investigations are performed in the initial management of menorrhagia may need further discussion between primary and secondary care clinicians to clarify their purpose.
		The gynaecological literature defines menorrhagia, as the loss of 80 ml or more of blood per period and guidelines for treatment are based on this definition.
		It is suggested that the disease model of menorrhagia is not relevant to the majority of women with this complaint.
	www.ais.up.ac.za /med/menorrhagia.htm (4778 words)

	Dissertations from Karolinska Institutet - Published by Karolinska Institutet Karolinska Institutet - ki.se
		Hysterectomy is an effective treatment of menorrhagia, but it is associated with substantial postoperative morbidity and convalescence.
		Normal endometrial angiogenesis is perturbed in idiopathic menorrhagia with an up-regulation of the agonist-receptor pathway of VEGF-A, which leads to anatomical differences in blood vessels, manifested inter alia as gaps.
		Vascular abnormalities in the endometrium of menorrhagia patients.
	diss.kib.ki.se /2003/91-7349-722-3 (643 words)

	Vaginal Bleeding — Complete medical information regarding irregularities of menstruation on MedicineNet.com
		The most common pattern of menorrhagia is excessive bleeding that occurs in regular menstrual cycles and with normal ovulation.
		Benign (noncancerous) causes of menorrhagia include uterine fibroids, endometrial polyps (tiny benign growths that protrude into the womb), adenomyosis, intrauterine devices (IUD's), underactive thyroid function (hypothyroidism), an autoimmune disorder called systemic lupus erythematosis, and blood clotting disorders.
		Sometimes, a woman has a condition that is well known to cause menorrhagia, but another condition may actually be the cause of her menorrhagia.
	www.medicinenet.com /vaginal_bleeding/page3.htm (604 words)

	Menorrhagia - David L. Hoffmann B.Sc. (Hons), M.N.I.M.H. - HealthWorld Online
		In younger women menorrhagia can be caused by a range of problems, necessitating skilled diagnosis.
		The suggestions given here are intended primarily for the non-pathological form of menorrhagia.
		The uterine astringents are the herbs to consider, but they will need to be either stronger of given in higher dosage than in menorrhagia.
	www.healthy.net /library/books/hoffman/reproductive/menorrhagia.htm (380 words)

	Numark \| Menorrhagia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Menorrhagia does not produce symptoms unless blood loss is significant, at which time symptoms of anaemia, such as fatigue, may occur.
		Among women taking agnus castus, menorrhagia has reportedly improved after taking the herb for several months.
		With its emphasis on long-term balancing of a woman’s hormonal system, agnus castus is not a fast-acting herb.
	www.numarkpharmacists.com /hn/Concern/Menorrhagia.htm (913 words)

	Acupuncture for Menorrhagia
		The treatment objective in the initial management of menorrhagia is to alleviate heavy menstrual flow and, as a consequence, prevent iron deficiency anaemia and improve quality of life.
		Further research is needed to develop the evidence base for acupuncture in the treatment of menorrhagia.
		A necessary precursor to a full-scale clinical trial is an exploratory trial to test and develop a protocol for the rigorous evaluation of the clinical and economic benefits of offering acupuncture to patients with menorrhagia, assessed as suitable for management in primary care.
	www.ftcm.org.uk /Acumen.htm (1629 words)

	MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Menstrual periods - heavy, prolonged, or irregular
		Irregular menstruation; heavy, prolonged, or irregular periods; menorrhagia; polymenorrhea; metrorrhagia
		More than menorrhagia: a review of the obstetric and gynaecological manifestations of bleeding disorders.
		Menorrhagia I: measured blood loss, clinical features, and outcome in women with heavy periods: a survey with follow-up data.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /medlineplus/ency/article/003263.htm (1034 words)

	Menorrhagia (Hypermenorrhea)
		Four tablespoons to 1 cup (60 to 250 milliliters) of blood is lost during this time.
		In some cases the cause of menorrhagia is unknown.
		However, if your menorrhagia is caused by a medication, you may prevent the condition by stopping use of this medicine.
	www.al-hikmah.org /menorrhagia.asp (457 words)

	Menorrhagia definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
		Menorrhagia: Excessive uterine bleeding occurring at the expected intervals of the menstrual periods.
		The bleeding from the uterus starts on schedule but is heavier than usual and may last longer than usual.
		Menorrhagia may be a sign of an underlying disorder, such as hormone imbalance, endometriosis, uterine fibroids or, rarely, cancer of the uterus.
	www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=4353 (222 words)

	Menorrhagia
		This national evidence-based clinical guideline on the management of menorrhagia in secondary care is produced by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG).
		This guideline aims to "provide recommendations to aid gynaecologists in the management of menorrhagia after referral to the hospital outpatient department and to improve the quality of care provided for women with menorrhagia." Made available in January 1999 and still regarded as current by the RCOG, as of February 2005.
		This document provides information about menorrhagia including: a definiton of the condition; incidence/prevalence; aetiology/risk factors; prognosis; aims of intervention; outcomes; and methods.
	omni.ac.uk /browse/mesh/D008595.html (876 words)

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