Heavy menstrual bleeding and quality of life

摘要

For a long time there has been uncertainty in how to classify and categorize abnormal bleeding from the uterus. The old terms of menorrhagia, metrorrhagia, meno-metrorrhagia have lingered on and there will be those who do not know how these Latin words are made up and what they mean. We asked a team lead by Hilary Critchley and colleagues from the FIGO working group on menstrual disorders to write about the new nomenclature for AOGS and the result can be seen in the commentary on pp. 619-625. Heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) is the simple and understandable descriptive term now to be used instead of menorrhagia. It is high time to go over to this, as we will also strive to do in this journal by asking authors to adopt the new FIGO (or PALM-CO-EIN) classification where possible. "Dysfunctional" bleeding is also to be abandoned as a term in favor of HMB and AUB (abnormal uterine bleeding) and descriptive sub-classifications. We advise all readers to take the time to first read this commentary and then follow that up with looking at the original article from FIGO (1).