[State of the bone tissue in women of reproductive age at different periods after ovariectomy]. / Sostoianie kostnoi tkani u zhenshchin reproduktivnogo vozrasta v razlichnye sroki posle ovariéktomii.

Eighty-eight women subjected to total oophorectomy for benign tumors and tumor-like formations in the uterus and tubes were examined. The mean age of the patients was 33.3 +/- 2.4 years. Bone tissue status was assessed by monophoton absorptiometry and computer-aided tomography. A negligible reduction of mineral density of osseous tissue was observed early after oophorectomy, its annual loss being high. In later periods after surgery, vice versa, a more expressed reduction of bone density and a relatively low rate of its annual reduction were observed. Specific features of the processes of osteoporosis in various periods after surgical removal of the ovaries make substitution hormonal therapy advisable for oophorectomized patients in the early periods after surgery, in order to effectively prevent and treat osteoporosis.