[Use of Soviet-made menotropin for the treatment of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in women].

Investigation of the therapeutic efficacy of menopause gonadotropin (MPG), made in the USSR, in patients with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism demonstrated MPG to possess the FSH-activity. In a number of patients with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism MPG treatment led to the occurrence of the ovular menstrual cycle, confirmed both clinically and by hormonal studies. But sometimes MPG proved to be ineffective, this pointing to the necessity of individual choice of a drug dose and the number of therapeutic courses.

[Androgenic function of the testes in children and adolescents with cryptorchism].

Androgenic function of the testes was studied in children and adolescents suffering from cryptorchism. Information on this problem is scant and controversial. The most sensitive radioimmunological methods of testosterone determination and functional test with chorionic gonadotropin were used in this work.