| Disease | 60 HYSTERECTOMIZED PATIENTS UNDER 40 YEARS OLD, WHO ALL HAD A LEAST ONE INTACT OVARY AND STILL COMPLAINED OF CLIMACTERIC SYMPTOMS, WERE TREATED WITH ESTRIOL, CONJUGATED ESTROGENS, ESTROGEN-GESTAGEN SEQUENTIAL THERAPY OR AN EXTRACT FROM
CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA AFTER RANDOMIZED DISTRIBUTION INTO 4 EQUAL GROUPS. THERAPY WAS CONTROLLED AFTER 4,8,12 AND 24 WEEKS WITH A MODIFIED KUPPERMAN-INDEX THAT ALSO INCLUDED TROPHIC DISORDERS OF GENITALS, AND ALSO BY SERUM-FSH AND -LH MEASUREMENTS.
IN ALL GROUPS, THE MODIFIED KUPPERMAN-INDEX BECAME SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER, THE PARALLEL DECREASE OF GONADOTROPINS COULD NOT BE CONFIRMED STATISTICALLY, HOWEVER. THERE WERE NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GROUPS CONCERNING THERAPY SUCCESS. |