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Some women with premature ovarian failure have ovarian follicles that function intermittently [ 9 10 ] . and pregnancies have occurred after the diagnosis of premature ovarian failure [ 11 12 13 14 ] . Clinicians are in need of an accurate method for the diagnosis of autoimmune oophoritis, a test with proven sensitivity and specificity [ 15 ] . Here we conduct an investigation to determine whether a commercially available ovarian antibody test (Immunodiagnostic Laboratories, Inc., San Leandro, CA) might be useful in the diagnosis of autoimmune premature ovarian failure.
Presently, there is no proven sensitive and specific serum test to confirm that a woman has ovarian failure on an autoimmune basis [ 7 ] . Histologic evaluation of the ovary is the only way to diagnose autoimmune oophoritis with certainty [ 17 ] . Nonetheless, some clinicians currently use commercial ovarian antibody tests for the diagnosis of autoimmune premature ovarian failure and make treatment recommendations based on these findings.
Because little is known about the pathophysiology of human autoimmune oophoritis, experimental animal models have been used to gain insight into possible mechanisms [ 22 23 ] . The fact that we found an increased frequency of thyroid and gastric parietal cell antibodies in our patients suggests similarity to a model of autoimmune ovarian failure that can be induced in certain strains of mice by performing neonatal thymectomy.