Key facts
- Other names
- Hypermenorrhea, menorrhagia
- Specialty
- Gynecology
- Symptoms
- bleeding more than usual
- Complications
- Anemia , severe pain
- Risk factors
- family history, anovulation, fibroids, polyps, and adenomyosis
- Diagnostic method
- based on physical examination
- Differential diagnosis
- Irregular menstruation
- Medication
- tranexamic acid
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Research
7,068 papers- Menorrhagia.BMJ clinical evidence · 2015
- Menorrhagia.BMJ clinical evidence · 2012
- [Menorrhagia during oral anticoagulant therapy].Ugeskrift for laeger · 2020
- Menorrhagia.BMJ clinical evidence · 2008
- Menorrhagia.Clinical evidence · 2003
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Encyclopedic overview
Heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB), previously known as menorrhagia or hematomunia, is a menstrual period with excessively heavy flow. It is a type of abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB).
Abnormal uterine bleeding can be caused by structural abnormalities in the reproductive tract, skipping ovulation (anovulation), bleeding disorders, hormonal issues (such as hypothyroidism) or cancer of the reproductive tract.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “menorrhagia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.