[Clinical-physiological characteristics and hormone therapy of patients with typical form of climacteric syndrome]

Clinical and physiological examinations of 76 women in the postmenopause revealed in 64 of them the typical form of the climacteric syndrome, characterized by not only typical symptoms ("flushes", increased exudation, headaches, etc.), but also by various emotional vegetative disturbances detected at profound clinical neurological examination of the autonomic nervous system and the emotional sphere. Individual hormone therapy was associated with an appreciable alleviation of all psychovegetative disorders: "flushes", exudation, irritability, arterial hypertension, severity of vegetative dystonia, hysterical stigmata.