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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Kiran Singh, M.D. [2]
Overview
Causes
Primary Amenorrhea[1] [2]
- 17 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency
- Agonadism
- After trauma
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Anovulation
- Complete androgen insenstivity syndrome
- Constitutional bradygenesis
- Constitutional delay of puberty
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Early infantile brain damage
- Gonadal dysgenesis
- Homozygous adrenogenital syndrome
- Hymenal atresia
- Hyperandrogenism
- Hypothalamic and pituitary tumors
- Idiopathic gonadotropin deficiency
- Kallmann's Syndrome
- Mayer-Rokitansky-Hauser Syndrome
- Mullerian dysgenesis
- Outflow tract disorders
- Pituitary insufficiency
- Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
- Post-hormonal contraceptive Amenorrhea
- Severe systemic diseases
- Swyer's Syndrome
- Testicular feminization
- Turner's Syndrome
- Uterine atresia
- Uterine hypoplasia
- Vaginal atresia / gynatresia
Secondary Amenorrhea
- 5-alpha-reductase deficiency
- Addiction
- Addison's Disease
- Adrenocortical insuffiency
- After curettage
- After hysterectomy
- After radiation (can be reversed)
- Adrenal tumors
- Anovulation
- Asherman's Syndrome
- Autoimmune diseases
- Body building (and use of androgens)
- Castration (radiation or surgical)
- Central nervous system tumor (CNS)
- Cervical stenosis
- Change of environment
- Complete and incomplete androgen insensitivity
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
- Craniocerebral trauma
- Cushing's Syndrome
- Depression
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Drug Side Effect- Chlorpromazine, Desogestrel and Ethinyl Estradiol, Docetaxel, Epirubicin hydrochloride, Ethynodiol diacetate and ethinyl estradiol, Fluoxymesterone, Histrelin, Iloperidone, Loxapine, Medroxyprogesterone, Norgestimate and Ethinyl estradiol, Norgestrel and Ethinyl estradiol, Sertraline, Methyltestosterone, Olanzapine, Pramipexole, Prochlorperazine, Tiagabine, Trifluoperazine
- Encephalitis
- Enzymatic defects in testosterone biosynthesis
- Exposure to maternal androgens in utero
- Extreme obesity
- During chemotherapy
- Functional hypothalalmic Amenorrhea due to:
- Stress
- Eating disorders
- Excessive exercise
- Weight loss
- Gonadotropin deficiency in tumors
- Hormone-active ovarian tumor
- Hermaphroditism
- Heterozygous adrenogenital syndrome
- Hyperprolactinemia
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypothyroidism
- Hysterectomy
- Imprisonment
- Meningitis
- Mullerian anomalies
- Myotonic dystrophy
- Pituitary insufficiency
- Polycystic ovary syndrome
- Post-hormonal contraception
- Post-infection (mumps, severe pelvic inflammatory disease)
- Postoerative gonadotropin deficiency
- Pregnancy
- Premature menopause
- Prolactinoma
- Sheehan's Syndrome
- Stress
- Testicular feminization
- Transsexuality when taking androgens
- Turner's Syndrome
- Uterine cavity sclerosis
- Uterine Schistosomiasis
- Abortion
- Severe generalized infections of the pelvis
- Post uterine surgery
- Overzealous or repeated uterine curettage
- Tuberculosis endometritis
Life Threatening Causes
Common Causes
Causes by Organ System
| Cardiovascular | No underlying causes |
| Chemical/Poisoning | No underlying causes |
| Dental | No underlying causes |
| Dermatologic | No underlying causes |
| Drug Side Effect | No underlying causes |
| Ear Nose Throat | No underlying causes |
| Endocrine | No underlying causes |
| Environmental | No underlying causes |
| Gastroenterologic | No underlying causes |
| Genetic | No underlying causes |
| Hematologic | No underlying causes |
| Iatrogenic | No underlying causes |
| Infectious Disease | No underlying causes |
| Musculoskeletal/Orthopedic | No underlying causes |
| Neurologic | No underlying causes |
| Nutritional/Metabolic | No underlying causes |
| Obstetric/Gynecologic | No underlying causes |
| Oncologic | No underlying causes |
| Ophthalmologic | No underlying causes |
| Overdose/Toxicity | No underlying causes |
| Psychiatric | No underlying causes |
| Pulmonary | No underlying causes |
| Renal/Electrolyte | No underlying causes |
| Rheumatology/Immunology/Allergy | No underlying causes |
| Sexual | No underlying causes |
| Trauma | No underlying causes |
| Urologic | No underlying causes |
| Miscellaneous | No underlying causes |
Causes in Alphabetical Order
- Ovarian destruction by double ovarian growth
- Ovarian destruction by irradiation
- Ovarian destruction by pelvic inflammation
- Ovarian dysgensis
- Ovarian hormone disorders
- Ovarian insufficiency due to fsh resistance
- Ovarian insufficiency, familial
- Ovarioleukodystrophy
- Ovary damage
- Panhypopituitarism
- Perimenopause
- Pituitary disorder
- Pituitary infarct or apoplexy
- Pituitary tumor <font color=
- Polycystic ovarian syndrome
- Prader-willi syndrome
- Pregnancy
- Premature ovarian failure
- Primary affective disorder
- Primary hypothalamic-pituitary failure
- Prior dilatation and currettage
- Progeria short stature pigmented nevi
- Prolactinoma
- Prolonged suppuration
- Proprotein convertase 1/3 deficiency
- Pseudoamenorrhea
- Pseudocyesis
- Pseudohermaphroditism, female -- skeletal anomalies
- Psychiatric disorders associated celiac disease
- Radiotherapy - causing ovary damage
- Rapid weight loss
- Refractory celiac disease
- Renal failure, chronic
- Reproductive disorders
- Resistance to LH
- Satoyoshi syndrome
- Severe or prolonged illness
- Sheehan's syndrome
- Simmond's disease
- Some fevers
- Spironolactone
- Stanozolol
- Starvation
- Stein-leventhal syndrome
- Stress
- Swyer syndrome
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Testicular feminization syndrome
- Testosterone
- Tetrasomy x
- Thyroid disorder
- Thyrotoxicosis
- Transverse vaginal septum
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trisomy x
- Tubal ligation syndrome
- Tuberculosis
- Turner syndrome
- Type 1 diabetes related celiac disease
- Type 2 diabetes
- Underweight
- Uterine hypoplasia
- Vaginal agenesis
- Vaginal closure due to fever
- Vaginal closure due to injury
- Vanishing testes syndrome
- Virilizing ovarian tumor
- Vitamin a embryopathy
- Weight gain
- Werner's syndrome
- William's syndrome associated celiac disease
References
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