| Administration of glucocorticoids inhibits excessive production of androgens, prevents progressive virilization, and stabilizes renin levels. |
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| Adverse effects such as virilization are few and can be minimized with reduction of the dosage. |
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| Clinical clues to possible hyperandrogenism in women include dysmenorrhea, virilization, and severe acne. |
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| When women take exogenous androgens, the same irreversible virilization occurs. |
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| Other therapies can stimulate testosterone production and virilization in patients with hypogonadism. |
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| Male pseudohermaphrodites are males with varying deficiencies of internal and external virilization. |
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| When administered to pregnant women, androgens cause virilization of the external genitalia of the female fetus. |
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| Although only slightly androgenic, women are occasionally confronted with virilization symptoms when taking this compound. |
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| Patients are often concerned about the physical manifestations of this disorder, including virilization and acanthosis nigricans, and may be less aware of systemic problems. |
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| Exposure of a female fetus or nursing infant to androgens may result in varying degrees of virilization. |
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| Should virilization symptoms develop, one would not wish to wait the weeks needed for testosterone concentrations to fall after a shot of enanthate for example. |
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| One of these is deficiencies of androgen biosynthesis and metabolism leading to insufficient virilization in boys. |
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| In females, hirsutism and virilization due to tumors, polycystic ovaries, and androgenital syndromes. |
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| In high doses it can cause some virilization symptoms in women. |
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| These side effects include weight gain, acne, vasomotor symptoms, menstrual irregularity, hypertension, atherosclerosis, virilization, hepatic neoplasms, and hair growth. |
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| While testosterone is produced, all boys' changes are characterized as virilization, a substantial product of testosterone metabolism in males is estradiol. |
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