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The side effects of oophorectomy may be alleviated by medicines other than hormonal replacement. Non-hormonal biphosphonates (such as Fosamax and Actonel) increase bone strength and are available as once-a-week pills. Low-dose selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors such as Paxil and Prozac alleviate vasomotor menopausal symptoms, i.e., "hot ...
The best available data are from a study describing the frequency and outcome of laparoscopy in women with chronic pelvic pain and/or a pelvic mass who were found to have ovarian remnants. In 119 women who underwent hysterectomy and oophorectomy by laparoscopy, ovarian remnants were known in 5 and were found during surgery in 21 patients (18% ...
Women under the age of 45 years have a significantly increased long-term mortality that is believed to be caused by the hormonal side effects of hysterectomy and prophylactic oophorectomy. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] This effect is not limited to pre-menopausal women; even women who have already entered menopause were shown to have experienced a decrease in ...
The findings show that women who undergo ovary removal before menopause have a decrease in white matter in their brains later in life. ... cognitive effects of ovary removal in females ...
2. Hormonal Changes. Premenopausal women who undergo ovary removal may lose hair due to the hormonal changes caused by the resulting menopause. During menopause, the body stops producing two ...
(For women with the higher risk, an oophorectomy, or prophylactic removal of ovaries, is also recommended.) “So again, we’re not saying that your regular woman on the street needs to go in and ...
In women, chemical castration acts by decreasing testosterone levels in order to lower their sex drive, side effects include the deflation of breast glands, expansion of the size of the nipple and shrinking of bone mass. In some jurisdictions, chemical castration has been used to reduce the libido of sexual offenders. [4]
In medicine, salpingo-oophorectomy is the removal of an ovary and its fallopian tube. [1] [2] This procedure is most frequently associated with prophylactic surgery in response to the discovery of a BRCA mutation, particularly those of the normally tumor suppressing BRCA1 gene (or, with a statistically lower negative impact, those of the tumour suppressing BRCA2 gene), which can increase the ...