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Progestin challenge test in postmenopausal patients
P Valenzuela1, R M Sabatel, V Valls
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hospital Universitario Principe de Asturias, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
Objectives:
The purpose of this study is to analyze the characteristics of patients identified with the progestin test.
Methods:
We administered the progestin challenge test to 157 postmenopausal women and compared the characteristics of the patients who bled, with those who did not.
Results:
Bleeding occurred in 14.01% of cases and we found that the number of patients who bled were significantly and independently more overweight, had higher levels of plasma estradiol, had a clear presence of superficial cells in the vaginal epithelium and had been menopausal for fewer years than those who did not bleed.
Conclusions:
We concluded that the test identifies women at risk from hormone-related endometrial cancer.