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Suspected ontogeny of a recently described hypo-androgenic PCOS-like phenotype with advancing age.
Endocrine - 1 Mar 2018
Gleicher Norbert, Kushnir Vitaly A, Darmon Sarah K, Wang Qi, Zhang Lin, Albertini David F, Barad David H
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BACKGROUND: A recent report described a new PCOS-like phenotype in lean older infertile women, and was characterized by high age-specific anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) but hypo- rather than the expected hyper-androgenism. The hypo-androgenism was, furthermore, characterized of, likely, adrenal origin and autoimmune etiology. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We extracted data on 708 consecutive infertility patients, and...
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