Medical history (history of illness) represents an important component in the diagnosis of adrenogenital syndrome (AGS).
Family history
- Are there frequent metabolic disorders in your family?
Social anamnesis
Current medical history/systemic history (somatic and psychological complaints).
- Do you have less appetite?
- Do you feel exhausted, tired, unable to perform?
- Are you irritable?
- Do you suffer from dizziness?
- Girl/Woman:
- Have you noticed an increase in virilization (masculinization)?
- Do you have a male pattern of hair (moustache, hair on the chest)?
- Do not have a menstrual period so far?
- Do you have menstrual irregularities?
- Do you suffer from diarrhea, vomiting?
- Do you have too low blood pressure or too high?
Vegetative anamnesis incl. nutritional anamnesis.
- Have you lost body weight unintentionally?
- Do you want to have children? How long has a possibly unfulfilled desire to have children?
Self history incl. medication history.
- Pre-existing conditions
- Birth history:
- Girl: conspicuous intersex genitalia already at birth? (Clitoral hypertrophy (enlargement of the clitoris) with normal female internal genitalia (uterus/uterine and ovaries/ovaries)).
- Boys: no abnormalities at birth?
- Operations
- Allergies
