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Deciphering gynaecological pathologies in women with acne and alopecia: an imaging experience.
Polycystic ovarian syndrome manifests acne and alopecia in teenagers and young adult females. To evaluate ovarian morphology and the prevalence of polycystic ovarian morphology (PCOM) in females between the ages of 21 and 45 who are in the reproductive stage and have isolated acne and/or androgenic alopecia. And their association. The present study was done with patients in the age group of 21 to 45 years with acne and/or androgenic alopecia. Modified Ferriman-Gallwey score was used to assess the degree of hirsutism (with score of more or equal to 8 as significant). Grading of acne vulgaris and androgenic alopecia was done by a single observer. Subjects were then evaluated for biochemical investigations of Hormonal assays on day 2 to 7. Transabdominal ultrasonography was performed in the follicular phase to demonstrate the ovarian morphology. In our study isolated androgenic alopecia was present in 28 patients (24.34%). In our study 54 (46.95%) patients out of 115 had combined acne and androgenic alopecia. In our study out of 33 patients with isolated acne 17 (51.5%) had PCO Morphology with grade I, grade II, grade III having prevalence of 46.2%, 53.8% and 57.1% respectively. In our study of the 28 patients with isolated androgenic alopecia 16 (57.1%) had PCOM with grade I, II and III respectively having prevalence of 56.3%, 55.6%, 66.7% with P value of 0.939. Patients with normal ovarian morphology were 12 in number (42.9%). Of the 54 patients with combined acne and androgenic alopecia 32 (59.3%) had PCOM and 22 patients had normal ovarian morphology. Higher overall prevalence was found in patients with combined acne and alopecia (59.3%) than in isolated groups; acne (51.5%), alopecia (57.1%). In our study it was to found that women with dermatological manifestations like acne and androgenic alopecia with regular menstruation. In our study it was found that these women with have high prevalence of PCOS.
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