NURSING 3PA2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Precocious Puberty, Idiopathy, Irregular Menstruation
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Running header: follicle stimulating hormone: normal ranges in canadian values. Female 0. 2-2. 7 iu/l (pagana, & pagana, 2013: patient population for fsh testing. This test is done on both men and women, including children (pagana, & pagana, 2013). Specifically, this test is done on adult men and women experiencing issues of the reproductive system, or on women curious of menopausal status (pagana, & pagana, Fsh testing on is not until puberty however if precocious puberty suspected testing will be done. Otherwise testing on children is done for the same reason of reproductive abnormalities, including delayed puberty, precocious puberty, and functional disorders of the pituitary-ovarian and pituitary-testicular relations (bishop, Fody, & schoeff, 2013): specimen collection procedure. Follicle stimulating hormone is a blood test (pagana, & pagana, 2013). It contains and venous sample and upon collection will be placed in a red-topped tube (pagana, & The test is not specific to serum or plasma and both are similar (hankinson, 2006).
