Brachymenorrhea

Brachymenorrhea (synonyms: menstrual bleeding – < 3 days; cycle bleeding – < 3 days; ICD-10-GM N91.-: Absent, too weak, or too infrequent menstruation) is a type disorder. It is present when the bleeding duration is shorter than three days.

Bleeding anomalies (bleeding or menstrual cycle disorders) are divided into rhythm disorders and type disorders.

Type disorders include:

  • Hypermenorrhea – bleeding is too heavy; usually the affected person consumes more than five pads/tampons per day
  • Hypomenorrhea – bleeding is too weak; the affected person consumes less than two pads per day
  • Brachymenorrhea – bleeding duration < 3 days.
  • Menorrhagia – bleeding is prolonged (> 7 days and < 14 days) and increased.
  • Spotting – interstitial bleeding such as.
  • Metrorrhagia – bleeding outside the actual menstruation; it is usually prolonged and increased, a regular cycle is not recognizable
  • Menometrorrhagia – prolonged and increased menstrual bleeding (bleeding duration > 14 days) with intermenstrual bleeding (eg, juvenile menometrorrhagia; due tohypogonadism (gonadal hypofunction), hyperprolactinemia (increase in blood prolactin levels); often in menopause)Caution: the term menometrorrhagia is often used synonymously with metrorrhagia in the clinic.