Towards the Clinical Evaluation of the Luteal Phase in Fertile Women: A Preliminary Study of Normative Urinary Hormone Profiles.

ABSTRACT: Objective: To describe and evaluate urinary hormone profiles in the luteal phase. Setting and Patients: Twenty-five healthy fertile women, with regular ovulatory pattern cycles as assessed by temperature and cervical mucus, at a university based center. Methods: Daily urinary hormonal assessment of luteinizing hormone, estrone glucuronide, and pregnanediol glucuronide. This was done during 3 or more cycles, with 78 completed cycles. Samples were analyzed by both crude levels and levels adjusted for the hormone excretion rate. Correlation between measured parameters (LH surge, vulvar mucus) was assessed with regard to their ability to detect presumed ovulation. Results: An upper, middle, and lower tercile range for the main urinary reproductive hormones was determined and a classification s

SUBMITTER: Alliende ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5991009 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature