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XY complete gonadal dysgenesis, also known as Swyer syndrome, is a type of defect hypogonadism in a person whose karyotype is 46,XY. Though they typically have normal vulvas , [ 1 ] the person has underdeveloped gonads, fibrous tissue termed " streak gonads ", and if left untreated, will not experience puberty .
The dysgenic testis can have an amount of functional tissue which can produce a level of testosterone, which causes masculinisation. [22] [23] Mixed gonadal dysgenesis is poorly understood at the molecular level. [23] The loss of the Y chromosome can occur from deletions, translocations, or migration diffenernce of paired chromosomes during ...
Some men have medical conditions that impair testicular testosterone production, such as Klinefelter’s syndrome. This type of testosterone deficiency is known as primary testicular failure or ...
Hypergonadotropic hypogonadism (HH), also known as primary or peripheral/gonadal hypogonadism or primary gonadal failure, is a condition which is characterized by hypogonadism which is due to an impaired response of the gonads to the gonadotropins, follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH), and in turn a lack of sex steroid production. [1]
Men with low serum testosterone levels should have other hormones checked, particularly luteinizing hormone to help determine why their testosterone levels are low and help choose the most appropriate treatment (most notably, testosterone is usually not appropriate for secondary or tertiary forms of male hypogonadism, in which the LH levels are ...
Testosterone levels very with age, according to the Cleveland Clinic, and start to drop around age 30 or 40. Women turn to weight loss drugs in menopause: What to know about the benefits and risks
Lee et al. in a 2006 Consensus statement on management of intersex disorders proposed a system of nomenclature based on "disorders of sex development" for clinical use, suggesting that "terms such as intersex, pseudohermaphroditism, hermaphroditism, sex reversal, and gender based diagnostic labels are particularly controversial," may be ...
Swyer syndrome. A form of complete gonadal dysgenesis, mostly due to mutations in the first step of sex determination; the SRY genes. A 5-alpha-reductase deficiency results in atypical development characterized by female phenotype or undervirilized male phenotype with development of the epididymis , vas deferens , seminal vesicle , and ...