Complications may arise during the procedure or due to removal of the ovaries. Oophorectomy is a relatively safe operation, although, like all major surgery, it does carry some risks. These may be ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto and the University of Alberta have found that women who carry a particular gene variant and have had their ...

Surgical removal of one or both ovaries is called Oophorectomy. It accelerates menopause by a few years in a menstruating women. The ovaries are a part of a woman's reproductive system that store ...

The cohort was comprised of: 22 participants who had premenopausal bilateral oophorectomy (PBO) before age 40 43 participants who had PBO between the ages of 40 and 45 39 participants who had PBO ...

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Women with APOE4 allele and who underwent an early bilateral oophorectomy (BO) were at a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD). In contrast, those with early BO, increased education ...

A groundbreaking study revealed that ovary-preserved hysterectomy can be an independent risk factor for metabolic syndrome as ...