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      Síndrome dos Ovários Policísticos: Avaliação Dopplerfluxométrica Translated title: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Doppler Flow Measurement Evaluation

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          Objetivo: avaliar a eficácia do Doppler colorido como método diagnóstico na síndrome dos ovários policísticos (SOP), mediante as variações do fluxo sangüíneo no estroma ovariano, nas artérias uterinas e no tecido subendometrial. Métodos: foram selecionadas trinta pacientes distribuídas em dois grupos: quinze com amenorréia ou oligomenorréia, hirsutismo (índice de Ferriman e Gallwey >8), índice de massa corporal IMC maior que 25 kg/m² e exame ecográfico que identificou estroma aumentado, hiperecogênico e policistose ovariana (grupo de estudo), e número idêntico de pacientes com ciclos menstruais normais, sem sinais de hirsutismo e ultra-sonografia normal (grupo controle). Com o uso da dopplerfluxometria transvaginal foram medidas a velocidade de pico sistólico ou velocidade máxima (Vmáx), índice de pulsatilidade (IP) e resistência dos vasos do estroma ovariano, da artéria uterina e do subendométrio. Resultados: a dopplervelocimetria mostrou Vmáx significativamente maior no estroma ovariano das pacientes com SOP (12,2 cm/s) (p<=0,0004) em relação ao grupo controle (8,5 cm/s). O IP da artéria uterina também se revelou muito superior no grupo com SOP (3,3 cm/s) em relação ao controle (2,7 cm/s). Outros parâmetros da dopplervelocimetria não evidenciaram diferença significativa. Ao estabelecermos um cutoff (ponto de corte) = 9 cm/s na amostragem para a Vmáx obtivemos os percentuais de 95,2 para sensibilidade, 80,0 para especificidade e de 83,3 para o valor preditivo positivo e 94,1 para o negativo. Com referência ao IP para um cutoff = 2.35 os testes revelaram: sensibilidade de 81,0%, especificidade de 50,0%, valor preditivo positivo de 63,0% e negativo de 71,4%. Conclusão: a dopplervelocimetria pode constituir subsídio a ser incorporado à investigação clínica e ultra-sonográfica no tocante ao diagnóstico da síndrome dos ovários policísticos.

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          Purpose: to evaluate the effectiveness of color Doppler as a diagnosis method for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) through blood flow variations in the ovarian stroma, in the uterine arteries and in the subendometrial tissue. Methods: thirty patients divided into two groups were selected: fifteen patients with amenorrhea or oligomenorrhea, hirsutism (Ferriman and Gallwey score >8), body mass index >25 kg/m² and echographic examination identifying increased hyperechogenic stromal and ovarian polycystosis (study group), and an identical number of patients presenting normal menstrual cycles, with no signs of hirsutism and with normal ultrasonography (control group). Transvaginal Doppler flowmetry measured systolic peak velocity or maximal velocity (Vmax) pulsatility index (PI) and resistance of ovarian stromal vessels, uterine arteries and subendometrial layer. Results: Doppler velocimetry showed significantly higher Vmax layer (p<=0,0004) in the ovarian stromal of patients with PCOS (12.2 cm/s) when compared to the control group (8.05 cm/s); the uterine artery PI was also higher in the PCOS group (3.3 cm/s) versus the control group (2.7 cm/s); other Doppler velocimetry parameters did not show significant differences. As we established a cutoff = 9 cm/s for the sample for Vmax, we obtained the percentages of 95.2 for sensitivity, 80.0 for specificity, 83.3 for positive predictive value and 94.1 for negative predictive value. Conclusion: Doppler velocimetry might constitute an additional tool to be incorporated in clinical and ultrasonographic investigation concerning the PCOS diagnosis.

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            Transvaginal color Doppler determination of the ovarian and uterine blood flow characteristics in polycystic ovary disease.

            To determine blood flow characteristics of ovarian and uterine arteries in patients with endocrinologically and clinically confirmed polycystic ovary disease (PCOD) in comparison with blood flow parameters observed in patients with spontaneous ovulatory cycles. Controlled clinical study. Patients from Infertility Service in a tertiary care institution. Forty patients with confirmed PCOD and 50 control patients in various phases of spontaneous menstrual cycles. Using transvaginal color Doppler sonography to determine ovarian morphology, ovarian blood vessel visualization rates, and ovarian and uterine arteries blood flow parameters (resistance index, pulsatility index, and maximal peak velocity). These parameters were correlated with serum hormone levels. Polycystic ovaries showed typical vascular pattern: increased stromal vascularity, a positive correlation between increased blood velocities and serum LH levels, and a trend toward lower resistance index and pulsatility index values, whereas uterine arteries revealed significantly increased resistance index and pulsatility index values. The observed specific intraovarian and uterine vascular pattern in PCOD patients may provide additional data for conventional endocrinologic and ultrasonic diagnostic methods for PCOD.
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              Circulating levels of immunoreactive beta-endorphin in polycystic ovary syndrome.

              The plasma levels of beta-endorphin were studied in 64 women with polycystic ovarian disease (PCOD), from whom was selected a group of 23 women with normal weight and amenorrhea of < 36 days. On day 21, beta-endorphin levels were: mean 64.92 pg/ml; SD 37.32 pg/ml; 95% CI 48.38-81.47 pg/ml. It was also observed that their levels of opioid peptide were reduced, compared with women who had normal ovulatory cycles, both in the follicular phase (mean 70.93 pg/ml; SD 24.59 pg/ml; 95% CI 76.84-99.77 pg/ml) and luteal phase (mean 88.30 pg/ml; SD 31.80 pg/ml; 95% CI 76.84-99.77 pg/ml). The results were statistically significant (p < 0.05) for levels in PCOD patients compared with those of the luteal phase in women with normal ovulatory cycles. The decreased levels of beta-endorphin were negatively related to luteinizing hormone (LH) levels, which might explain the rise of LH levels in women with PCOD who control their weight and at the time of amenorrhea, although it is not clear if central opioid activity is reflected in the peripheral blood.
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                Contributors
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                Role: ND
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                Journal
                rbgo
                Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
                Rev. Bras. Ginecol. Obstet.
                Federação Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia (Rio de Janeiro )
                1806-9339
                June 2001
                : 23
                : 5
                : 307-312
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Brazil
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                S0100-72032001000500006
                10.1590/S0100-72032001000500006
                64de09e0-8e4a-4d07-98ee-0664d1c997c9

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                OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY

                Obstetrics & Gynecology
                Polycystic ovary syndrome,Hirsutism,Doppler velocimetry,Síndrome dos ovários policísticos,Hirsutismo,Dopplervelocimetria

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