[Hyperandrogenism as a frequent cause of hirsutism]

Excessive hair growth in androgens sensitive areas of female body is called hirsutism and it is a symptom of masculinization. Intensity of hirsutism in particular areas of the body is individual and it depends on the androgens excess rate, or increased sensitivity of hair follicles with normal androgens rate in the serum. There were 84 patients analysed, all of them hospitalized in Department of Gynecological Endocrinology Silesian Medical Academy in Katowice. The aim of this study is to check the correlation between the occurrence and intensity of hirsutism and androgens rate in the serum. In the group of patients with hirsutism the androgens rate was excessed in 72 patients but in 12 women there was an idiopathetical hirsutism diagnosed.