Spanish Consensus on Premature Menopause
Maturitas 80 (2015) 220–225 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Maturitas jou rnal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/maturitas Spanish consensus on premature menopause a,∗ a b c d Nicolás Mendoza , M Dolores Juliá , Daniela Galliano , Pluvio Coronado , e f f g h Begona˜ Díaz , Juan Fontes , José Luis Gallo , Ana García , Misericordia Guinot , i j k j l Merixtell Munnamy , Beatriz Roca , Manuel Sosa , Jordi Tomás , Plácido Llaneza , m Rafael Sánchez-Borrego a University of Granada, Obstetric and Gynecologic, Granada, Spain b Hospital Universitario la Fe de Valencia, Spain c Instituto Valenciano de Infertilidad (IVI), Barcelona, Spain d University of Madrid (Complutense), Obstetric and Gynecologic, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain e Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Albacete, Spain f Hospital Virgen de las Nieves de Granada, Spain g Instituto Valenciano de Oncología, Spain h Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Spain i Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain j Hospital Universitari Mutua Terrassa, Spain k Hospital Materno-Infantil de Canarias, Spain l University of Oviedo, Obstetric and Gynecologic, Hospital Central de Asturias, Spain m Clínica Diatros, Barcelona, Spain a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Introduction: While we recognise that the term premature menopause is more accepted by most non- Received 18 September 2014 specialist health care providers and by the general population, ‘primary ovarian insufficiency’ (POI) is Received in revised form 3 November 2014 currently considered the most apposite term to explain the loss of ovarian function, because it better Accepted 12 November 2014 explains the variability of the clinical picture, does not specify definitive failure, and highlights the specific ovarian source.
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