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In an open, non-randomized prospective phase-III-study the clinical and endocrine efficacy as well as the safety of leuprorelin acetate depot (Enantone-Gyn Monats-Depot) were investigated. The therapeutic results of 198 patients, gathered from 5 university institutions and two city hospitals, are reported. Endometriosis was classified by the revised American Fertility Society score (r-AFS) before and at the end of treatment. Serum levels of LH, FSH, prolactin, estradiol, progesterone, androstenedione, testosterone and leuprorelin acetate were determined by radioimmunoassay. The mean total r-AFS score changed as follows: before surgical intervention during first-look laparoscopy 21 +/- 24 at the end of first-look laparoscopy 15 +/- 19 at the end of the GnRH-treatment 8 +/- 14 During leuprorelin acetate treatment the r-AFS stages changed as follows: [table; see text] Using the scoring system 85.2% of the patients improved. Relief of dysmenorrhoea could be achieved in 95.4%, relief of dyspareunia in 64% and of pelvic pain in 69.4% of patients. Baseline hormone levels dropped sharply during treatment. [table; see text] Androstenedione, testosterone, blood pressure, body weight, haematological parameters, liver enzymes, creatinine, electrolytes and HDL-/LDL-cholesterin remained more or less unchanged. Side effects being hot flushes, sweating, sleeplessness, headache, nausea, depression and vaginal dryness were due to estradiol deprivation. In 135 patients resumption of menstruation occurred in 95.6% within the first three months post-treatment. 23 patients of whom 21 were judged as infertile, became pregnant immediately after treatment was finished. The study results confirm the efficacy of leuprorelin acetate depot in the treatment of even advanced stages of endometriosis.
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PMID:[Treatment of endometriosis with the GnRH agonist leuprorelin acetate depot (Enatone-Gyn monthly depot): a multicenter study]. 784 80

In this paper, the association of hormones to vasomotor complaints during the menopausal transition is discussed. Fifty-seven regularly menstruating women without history of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) were selected for a longitudinal, prospective study around the menopausal transition. The mean age at the start of the study was 51.3 (+/-2.0) years. At intervals of 12 months all women went through a semi-structured interview and filled in questionnaires. Venous blood samples were collected every 12-month for analyses of estradiol (E2), testosterone, androstendione, dehydroepiandrosterone-sulphate (DHEA-S), follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), thyrotropin (TSH), and luteinizing hormone (LH). Vasomotor complaints were tested using questions about hot flushes and bouts of sweating in terms of occurrence, frequency and degree of distress. Forty-six percent of the subjects reported hot flushes and bouts of sweating before menopause, increasing to 67% during the first year after menopause and 49% in the second year postmenopause. Low levels of estradiol and high levels of FSH were associated with vasomotor complaints before menopause. During menopause high levels of TSH were related to vasomotor complaints. The first year after menopause, women, who at this point achieved hot flushes, were characterised by high levels of E2, but declining and low levels of FSH, but increasing. Postmenopausal, high levels of testosterone and DHEA-S seemed to protect against vasomotor symptoms. Our most important finding was, that among women who achieved hot flushes at the first assessment postmenopause, the high androgen levels was a significant predictor of recovery from hot flushes at the last assessment, 1 year later.
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PMID:Androgens and estrogens in relation to hot flushes during the menopausal transition. 1180 45

The study aim was to test the relationship between gendered personality dispositions (GPD), sex hormones, and vasomotor complaints in the menopausal transition. Fifty-seven healthy women (mean age 51.1 years, standard deviation 2.0) were drawn from a population registry. At enrollment all women were menstruating regularly, and all women reached menopause in the course of the study. Questionnaire data and blood samples were collected once a year over a period of five years. GPD scores (based on the Bem Sex-Role Inventory, BSRI), frequencies of hot flushes and hormone data (estradiol, follicle-stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, testosterone, androstendione and dehydroepiandrostendione sulfate) were determined. Subjects were placed into four categories based on the BSRI: masculine, feminine, androgynous and undifferentiated. GPD did not change during the menopausal transition. Testosterone and androstendione were related to GPD in that testosterone and androstendione were higher in the sex typed categories (masculine and feminine) than in the non sex-typed categories (androgynous and undifferentiated). GPD are related both to androgens and to vasomotor complaints such as hot flushes during the menopausal transition, but the mechanisms of these relationships are not known.
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PMID:Gendered personality dispositions, hormone values, and hot flushes during and after menopause. 1252 Aug 59