Category | Condition | Clinical example |
Gynecologic | | |
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- Endometriosis-related bleeding or pain
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- Abnormal uterine bleeding
| - Heavy menstrual bleeding
- Irregular bleeding
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Hematologic | - Anemia (inherited or acquired)
| - Sickle cell disease
- Transfusion-dependent thalassemia
- Iron deficiency anemia
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| - ITP/thrombocytopenia
- von Willebrand disease
- Hemophilia
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| - Chemotherapy
- Hematopoietic cell transplant
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Neurologic | | |
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Challenges with menstrual hygiene | - Intellectual or developmental delay
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- Wheelchair requiring patients
| - Spinal cord injury
- Spina bifida
- Cerebral palsy
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| - Rheumatoid arthritis
- Cerebral palsy
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Work or social indications | - Military deployment or space travel
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- Camping or wilderness experience
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Conditions worsened by menses | | |
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- Catamenial pneumothorax and/or hemoptysis
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| - Postural tachycardia syndrome
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