Early menopause is a condition when ovarian function (ovarian) and menstruation stopped before age 40 years. In early menopause, low estrogen levels, but levels of pituitary hormones that stimulate the ovaries (especially FSH) high in an effort to stimulate the ovaries.
Things that can cause early menopause, among others:
- Congenital abnormalities (usually chromosome abnormalities);
- Autoimmune disease (the body to form antibodies that attack the ovaries);
- Removal of the ovaries.
- Smoking can cause early menopause occurred several months earlier.
Early Menopause Symptoms
Besides no longer having periods, sufferers also experience other symptoms of menopause such as hot flashes and emotionally unstable. Diagnosis based on symptoms and physical examination. If the suspected cause is a painful autoimmune, conducted blood tests to look for the antibodies.
In patients under 30 years of age are usually carried out chromosome analysis. If the Y chromosome is found, then performed surgery to remove any testicular tissue from the stomach because the tissue is at risk of cancer by 25 percent. Chromosome analysis is not necessary in women over the age of 35 years.
Menopause Treatment
Estrogen replacement therapy (TSE) can prevent or treat symptoms of menopause. Patients with premature menopause have less than 10 percent chance to get pregnant again. These opportunities can be increased up to 50 percent if the patient containing the egg cell from another woman.
Once fertilized, the egg from a donor is embedded in the uterus of the patient. Before the result of conception implanted in the uterus, patients get the hormones estrogen and progesterone therapy that resulted in artificial menstrual and re-active lining of the uterus and is ready to undergo pregnancy.
