PMID: 2494823Mar 1, 1989Paper

Sex hormones and sex hormone binding globulin in males with compensated and decompensated cirrhosis of the liver

Acta Endocrinologica
L De BesiI Mastrogiacomo

Abstract

The present work investigates the sex hormone profiles in 50 male patients with liver cirrhosis of different etiology according to the degree of liver dysfunction. The only hormonal impairment in well-compensated cirrhotics (group A) was an increase in mean serum concentrations of estrone, androstenedione, and sex hormone binding globulin. In decompensated cirrhotic patients with ascites (group B), low mean levels of total and free testosterone were found along with normal gonadotropins mean levels. Estrone and androstenedione levels were still elevated, whereas sex hormone binding globulin levels were not different from controls. In decompensated cirrhotics patients with encephalopathy (group C), total and free testosterone mean levels were lower than in group B, and LH mean levels were elevated; estrone levels were markedly high, but androstenedione levels were subnormal; sex hormone binding globulin concentrations were again not different from controls. The few patients with high prolactin levels belonged primarily to this group. Estradiol mean levels were not significantly elevated in any of the groups. It is concluded that the various hormonal patterns of gonadal failure and of the impairment of steroid metabolism and tran...Continue Reading

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