Gonadotropins
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Overview
- Gonadotropins are the hormones capable of promoting gonadal growth and function
- Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) and Luteinizing Hormone (LH) are examples of gonadotropins
| Reference Range in Grown-Up Women | |
| Follicle Phase | |
| LH | 1.8-13.4 mU/ml |
| FSH | 3-12 mU/ml |
| Periovulatory Phase | |
| LH | 15.6-78.9 mU/ml |
| FSH | 8-22 mU/ml |
| Luteal Phase | |
| LH | 0.7-19.4 mU/ml |
| Postmenopausal | |
| LH | > 50 mU/ml |
| FSH | 12-30 mU/ml |
| Reference Range in Men | |
| LH | 1.5-9.2 mU/ml |
| FSH | 1-14 mU/ml |
Differential Diagnosis
Increased FSH and LH
- After radiation therapy
- Chemotherapeutic therapy
- Climacterium praecox
- During menopause or postmenopausal
- Gonadal dysgenesis
- Primely hypogonadism
- Swyer-James Syndrome
- Turner's Syndrome
Reduced FSH and LH
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Hyperprolactinemia
- Progestogen negative amenorrhea
- Traumatic or tumorous damage of the pituitary or the hypothalamus
Reduced FSH/LH Quotient
- Hyperandrogenic ovarial insufficiency
- Polycystic ovary syndrome
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Some of the initial content on this page may be incorporated in part from copyleft sources in the public domain including wikis such as Wikipedia and AskDrWiki. Drug information for patients came from the The National Library of Medicine. Infectious disease information may have come from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Differential Diagnoses are drawn from clinicians as well as an amalgamation of 3 sources: 1.The Disease Database; 2. Kahan, Scott, Smith, Ellen G. In A Page: Signs and Symptoms. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2004:3; 3. Sailer, Christian, Wasner, Susanne. Differential Diagnosis Pocket. Hermosa Beach, CA: Borm Bruckmeir Publishing LLC, 2002:7 .
