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Therapeutics > Drug Therapy > Hormone Replacement Therapy > Estrogen Replacement Therapy

Preferred term

Estrogen Replacement Therapy  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • The use of hormonal agents with estrogen-like activity in postmenopausal or other estrogen-deficient women to alleviate effects of hormone deficiency, such as vasomotor symptoms, DYSPAREUNIA, and progressive development of OSTEOPOROSIS. This may also include the use of progestational agents in combination therapy.

Synonym(s)

  • Replacement Therapy, Estrogen
  • Therapy, Estrogen Replacement

In other languages

  • French

  • Hormonothérapie oestrogénique substitutive
  • THS (Traitement Hormonal oestrogénique Substitutif)
  • Traitement oestrogénique substitutif

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-T1TV45VL-D

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