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Pathophysiology lecture: female repro Part 2

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The best time to get pregnant is day   14  
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the egg does not finish meiosis unless there is   sperm  
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Anytime that there is bleeding not associated with menstrual bleeding   This could be endometrial hyperplasia (too many cells), or it could be polyps , or cancer  
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Sometimes cervical cancer develops from too much   estrogen which is seen in post-menopausal women because they take estrogen to fight osteoporosis  
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giving estrogen with progesterone decreases   cancer development  
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Painful menstruation is called   dysmenorrheal  
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the fatty acid molecules you can produce that have many functions; one of their functions is cramping, so if you have a painful menstruation you can just have too many of these   Prostaglandins  
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Dysfunction of the vulva: Vulvar dystrophy   when the external genitalia becomes keratinized  
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caused by the use of tampons or the over use of tampons which disrupts the vaginal wall causing tears   toxic shock syndrome  
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toxic shock syndrome   Leaving the tampon in too long can cause the flow of menstruation to be disrupted. The normal bacterium that is in the vaginal walls gets into the tears and circulates around  
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The definition of infertility   inability of a man or women to contribute to conception. infertility is also when women cannot carry an offspring to term.  
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Infertility: dysfunction that a piece of a chromosome is translocated on another chromosome   Robertson’s translocation  
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infertile they find out they are XY   androgen insensitivity syndrome  
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If you are insensitive to testosterone but you are genotypic XY, phenotypically you will be   female  
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because of the XY chromosome. It is genotypic male producing testosterone yet you were insensitive so your receptors will not respond to   testosterone  
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can cause infertility because these people frequently develop clots   Thrombophilia  
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Endocrine causes of infertility are   diabetes mellitus, hypo/hyper thyroid, adrenal disorders, hypothalamus, and pituitary. Kidney and liver diseases also can cause infertility.  
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this is the leading cause of infertility   are polycystic ovarian syndrome  
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Another form of infertility is ______; means not ovulating   anovulation  
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If you don’t have _________ you are not going to maintain the uterine wall and not maintain pregnancy.   progesterone  
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: normally females are XX they have two X chromosomes and in _______ syndrome you have one X chromosome and nothing to correspond with it so they only have 45 chromosome total.   Turner’s  
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_________syndrome is XO   Turner’s  
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benign tumors on the uterus   uterine fibroids  
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syndrome which you can have scarring of uterine cavity   Asherman’s  
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Cervical factors that can cause infertility:   stenosis which means the narrowing or the lack of producing mucus  
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