ReviewJournal of education and health promotion2022
Post-COVID-19 menstrual abnormalities and infertility: Repercussions of the pandemic.
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- Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Female Reproductive Health Following Ebola Virus Disease.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2025Pooled it
- The Impact of Long COVID on the Female Reproductive System: A Narrative Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Burden and temporal trends of female-specific cancers in China: A systematic analysis of the 2023 global burden of disease study.PloS one · 2026Article
- Evidence on sexual and reproductive health service delivery during and post COVID-19: a multi-country facility assessment.Reproductive health · 2025Article
- Structural and Hormonal Changes in Reproductive-Age Women Post-COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Ultrasound and Biochemical Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Global, regional, and national burden and trends of reproductive-aged male and female infertility from 1990-2021.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- A Cross-Sectional Study on Post-COVID-19 Menstrual Abnormalities in Women of Reproductive Age Group at a Tertiary Care Hospital.Obstetrics and gynecology international · 2025Article
- Prior COVID-19 infection increases degenerated oocytes but does not affect IVF outcomes: a prospective cohort study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Observational
- Prevalence and determinants of menstrual abnormalities among postgraduate students using structural equation model.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025Article
- The Multi-faceted Effects of COVID-19 on Female Reproductive Health: An Updated Narrative Review.Cureus · 2024Review
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- The Impact of COVID-19 on Menstrual Cycle in Women.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Female reproductive health impacts of Long COVID and associated illnesses including ME/CFS, POTS, and connective tissue disorders: a literature review.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2023Review
- Menstrual Changes after COVID-19 Infection and COVID-19 Vaccination.International journal of clinical practice · 2022Article
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Abstract
While battling the life-threatening complications of COVID-19, its effect on the menstrual cycle and infertility has been somewhat ignored. This brief review aims on highlighting the importance of menstrual abnormalities being experienced during the post-COVID period and to make the clinicians aware about what to expect in regard of menstrual abnormalities by learning from various studies that have been conducted worldwide. This review article was written with systematic literature review with the help of data search machine such as PubMed, Scopus, Web of Sciences, and Google Scholar. A search strategy leads to the extraction of 160 related articles that after the removal of inappropriate and duplicate articles, 33 articles were selected for the review. To find other potentially relevant articles, the references of the extracted articles were thoroughly examined. The search was carried out using keywords including "COVID-19," "Menstrual abnormalities," and "Infertility." Using OR and AND, the keywords mentioned above were combined and then utilized in the search box of the databases. Articles published from January 2020 to September 2021 were included in this study. It includes worldwide data ranging from studies done in China, India, Ireland, Turkey, Jordan, and Germany. During the post-COVID period, there is a significant alteration in the sex hormones of females infected by COVID-19 which may manifest as menstrual cycle abnormalities such as decreased cycle length or prolonged menstrual cycle bleeding. It may also manifest as infertility due to ovarian failure due to suppression of ovarian function COVID-19 a novel coronavirus which is presently a pandemic has affected the world in manner reminding the world of 1918 Spanish flu. However, while battling the deadly pandemic, the clinicians should also be aware of the repercussions of the effect this infection has on multiple organs such as ovarian suppression leading to infertility, oligomenorrhea, or menorrhagia.
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