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Amenorrhea (Without Hirsutism) and Menopause
PUBLISHED: 1998

REVISED:March 2008

TOPIC: Endocrine

SCOPE: Laboratory testing

ABSTRACT: 
This guideline was developed to guide the appropriate laboratory testing to facilitate the investigation of causes of amenorrhea and to diagnosis menopause. It also describes the endocrine causes of amenorrhea.

TARGET POPULATION: 
• Women with primary amenorrhea (delayed puberty as defined by
• The lack of breast development by age 14 years, or by the lack of menses by age 16 in the presence of normal secondary sexual development, or by the lack of menses by 3 years after the larche)
• Women with secondary amenorrhea (more than 6 months without menses after prior establishment of menses

EXCLUSIONS: Pregnant women

Summary: Amenorrhea
 

Guideline: Amenorrhea (without Hirsutism) and Menopause
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
  
Working Group
A multi-disciplinary team comprised of:

General Practitioners
Pathologists
Endocrinologists
Clinical Biochemists
Laboratory technologists
Member of the public