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ROLE OF OVARY AND ADRENAL GLANDS IN HYPERANDROGENEMIA IN PATIENTS WITH POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME

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Ovary is the main source of the hypcrandrogenism in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Adrenal glands may also be involved in the palhogencsİs of the development of PCOS. To inves-tigate thİs possibiiİty and to find out if buserelin test is able to dİslinguish PCOS patients from the patients with idiopalic hirsutisnı (İH), 29 womcn wilh PCOS, 21 women with IH, and 20 control subjects (CS) were subjectcd to ACTH and buserciin tests. Basal and stimulated dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S) and slimulated cortisol (F) leveis at'ter ACTH administration weıe sigııificantly higher in PCOS group than in IH and CS groups (p<0.0001 and p<0.05, rcspectively). PCOS patients also possessed sigııificantly higher basaî and stimulated 17-hydroxyprogeslerone (17-OH P) leveis, ineluding the peak Icvels (p<0.02), during buserelin tcstİng when compared vvith IH patients and CS. There was no sig-nificant corrclalion between the ACTH stimulated and the buserelin stimulated peak 17-OH P value.s (r=0.157, p>0.05). In conelusion, sigııificantly higher basal and ACTH stimuiatcd leveis of F and DHEA-S in PCOS compared vvith controls and patients with İH, rcflect that adrenal Iıyperaetivity plays a role in hyperandrogencmia seen in PCOS. The lack of the correlation betwcen ACTH and buserelin stimulated 17-OH P leveis makes it difficull to say that adrenal hypcractivity seen in PCOS is the result of the dysrcgulation of cylochrome P450cl7-ct enzyme. Buserelin test could dislinguish at least some of the patients with PCOS from the other patients prcsenliııg witlı the coramon symptoms of hyperandrogenemia.
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