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Gonadotropin Determinations in Timed 3-Hour Urine Collections During the Menstrual Cycle and LHRH Testing

Vincent Memorial Hospital (Gynecological Service of the Massachusetts General Hospital) Boston, Massachusetts, 02114

The usefulness of timed 3-hour urine collections as a substitute for serum gonadotropin (LH and FSH) determinations during the menstrual cycle and during LHRH testing was examined. The timing of the 3-hour urine collection is not important in mature individuals, since no significant temporal trend was found when aliquots were collected every 3 hours throughout two 24-hour periods in one mature woman. Good correlation was found between serum LH and FSH concentrations and the quantity of LH and FSH in timed 3-hour urine specimens throughout normal, ovulatory menstrual cycles in two women. Studies before and during 51 LHRH stimulation tests in normal men, children, and women during different phases of the menstrual cycle and in patients with a variety of hypothalamicpituitary-gonadal axis disorders were performed. There was good correlation between the quantity of the gonadotropins in timed 3-hour urine collections and the mean serum LH and FSH concentrations before and during the LHRH test. The "response area" for serum LH and FSH also correlated well with the amounts of LH and FSH in the urine collected during this period. Therefore, the timed 3-hour urine collection for gonadotropin estimation provides a simple, accurate method for the integration of fluctuating serum concentrations of LH and FSH during such instances of physiologic variability as the menstrual cycle and LHRH stimulation tests.

Supported by General Research Support Grant RR 05486-12 from National Institutes of Health and by the Vincent Research Fund.

Received November 28, 1975.

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