The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics
2013 , Vol 55 , Num 2
Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding in Adolescent Girls and Evaluation of their Response to Treatment
Divisions of 1Adolescent Medicine, and 2Pediatric Hematology, Department of Pediatrics, Hacettepe University Faculty of
Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. E-mail:drderman@hotmail.com
Dysfunctional uterine bleeding (DUB) is a gynecologic problem that occurs
often during adolescence and is the most frequent cause of urgent admission
to the hospital. DUB occurs in the adolescent usually because of anovulation,
a result of developmental immaturity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian
(HPO) axis. Diagnosis can only be confirmed when there is no other pathology
present, so it is important to exclude all the other possibilities. The aim of
this study was to evaluate the frequency of coagulation disorders and other
underlying situations as a cause of menorrhagia in adolescents with DUB
and to assess the response to the treatment(s) given.
Keywords :
adolescent, metrorrhagia, dysfunctional uterine bleeding.