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The mean (+/-SD) serum prolactin (PRL) level of 78 normal premenopausal women was 10-6+/-3-0 ng/ml, and this was significantly different from that of post-menopausal women (8-2+/-4-0 ng/ml) and women taking combined oral contraceptive preparations (12-2+/-4-0 ng/ml). No significant differences were found between follicular and luteal phase PRL levels. Serum PRL levels higher than the ranges given above were found in 31 of 87 patients with secondary amenorrhoea and two of 41 patients with oligomenorrhoea. Nine of the 33 patients with hyperprolactinaemia did not have galactorrhoea. Only two of the patients with hyperprolactinaemia had pituitary tumours evident on skull X-ray films. Serum PRL levels were of value in predicting the likely success in achieving ovulation with clomiphene citrate or CB-154; clomiphene citrate was less likely to be successful in the presence of hyperprolactinaemia, whereas the reverse applied for treatment with CB-154.
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M Bright, and
M A Smith
January 1989,
Przeglad lekarski,
R J Pepperell, and
M Bright, and
M A Smith
August 1992,
Human reproduction (Oxford, England),
R J Pepperell, and
M Bright, and
M A Smith
January 1983,
Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand = Chotmaihet thangphaet,
R J Pepperell, and
M Bright, and
M A Smith
June 1957,
Ceskoslovenska gynekologie,
R J Pepperell, and
M Bright, and
M A Smith
October 1973,
Endocrinologia japonica,
R J Pepperell, and
M Bright, and
M A Smith
February 1989,
Sheng li xue bao : [Acta physiologica Sinica],
R J Pepperell, and
M Bright, and
M A Smith
December 1981,
Hormone and metabolic research = Hormon- und Stoffwechselforschung = Hormones et metabolisme,
R J Pepperell, and
M Bright, and
M A Smith
November 1976,
Southern medical journal,
R J Pepperell, and
M Bright, and
M A Smith
April 1996,
Acta paediatrica Japonica : Overseas edition,
R J Pepperell, and
M Bright, and
M A Smith
January 1981,
Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis Facultatis Medicae,
