Yoshihide Inayama, Koji Yamanoi, Baku Nakakita, Shimpei Shitanaka, Jumpei Ogura, Tsutomu Ohara, Mie Sakai, Haruka Suzuki, Koji Yasumoto, Ichiro Kishimoto, Yusuke Sagae, Yoshimi Kitawaki, Koh Suginami
A high secretion of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) in reproductive-aged women is unusual. We report a case of recurrent corpus luteum hemorrhage and subsequent ovarian torsion with markedly elevated FSH levels in a reproductive-aged woman in the absence of functional gonadotroph adenoma (FGA) or premature ovarian failure (POF). A 22-year-old nulligravid woman with a history of bilateral hemorrhagic corpus luteum and subsequent ovarian torsion presented with acute abdominal pain. An emergency salpingo-oophorectomy of the right side was performed, and the right ovarian torsion due to hemorrhagic corpus luteum was diagnosed...
2020: Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology