The Effect of Anaesthesia and Surgery on Sex Hormones

  • A. Maeda
  • H. Ishihara
  • T. Oyama
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Part of the Anaesthesiologie und Intensivmedizin / Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine book series (A+I, volume 132)

Abstract

We have reported that anaesthetics influence the human hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis [11–17, 20–23, 26, 28], and emphasized its different responses between anaesthetics and between man and woman. Further, we have recently found that estradiol appears to play an important role in regulating the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis during anaesthesia and surgery [17].

Keywords

Postmenopausal Woman Luteinizing Hormone Follicle Stimulate Hormone Luteal Phase Plasma Estradiol 
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  • A. Maeda
  • H. Ishihara
  • T. Oyama

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