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Mixed hypogonadism: a neglected combined form of hypogonadism
Rui Zhang1, Bingqing Yu1,2, Xi Wang1
1Department of Endocrinology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 100730, Beijing, China.
Purpose:
Kallmann syndrome is a rare disease characterized by delayed puberty, infertility and anosmia. We report the clinical and genetic characteristics of three patients with Kallmann syndrome who presented with Klinefelter syndrome and defined this neglected combined form of hypogonadism as mixed hypogonadism.
Methods:
Clinical data and examinations were obtained, including laboratory examination and magnetic resonance imagination (MRI) of the olfactory structures. Congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (CHH) related genes were screened by next generation sequencing (NGS).
Results:
Three patients with Kallmann syndrome were included. They had co-existence with Klinefelter syndrome and showed hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. Patient 1 was complicated with germinoma.
Conclusion:
Mixed hypogonadism was defined as hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in Klinefelter syndrome or primary testicular disease. Clinicians should be alert to mixed hypogonadism when spermatogenesis induction failed in patients with CHH or gonadotropin levels decrease in patients with Klinefelter syndrome.
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