title: Setting up a specialist menopause clinic in Ireland: the initial experience.
abstract: The Rotunda Hospital Dublin set up a Menopause Clinic in February 1990. Eighty-one new patients were seen in the first 6 months of operation. Most presented either with symptoms attributable to oestrogen deficiency (36%) or non-specific symptoms associated with depression or ageing (26%). There was a high incidence of significant family/social/martial problems (25%) and abnormal vaginal bleeding (20%). The case is made for such specialised clinics; expertise with respect to hormone replacement therapy and its manipulation develops, problems of specific socio-cultural settings can be identified, and screening programmes for disease coordinated.
authors.affiliation: Royal College of Surgeons, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Milner
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Barry-Kinsella
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Short
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Harrison
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008593:Menopause; D008875:Middle Aged