Purpose of the study : a comparison various vaginoplasty techniques and results in patients with transsexualism based on analysis data from world scientific literature. Material methods. The seeking published research placed open databases by keywords. A total 391 articles were initially analyzed which 33 have met our acceptability criteria. 3716 cases where undergone penile inversion, flap sur...

Abstract The aging Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) population is a patient group which has not been extensively researched in terms of its specific clinical needs. There growing improvement the awareness LGBT patients; however there appears to be disparity between care provided for younger and older individuals. community suffers from disproportionately reduced access as well healthc...

This special issue represents a comprehensive, multidisciplinary look on gender dysphoria. We invited investigators to contribute original research articles as well as review articles that will further encourage the continuing efforts to understand the role of gender dysphoria, sex reassignment surgery, modalities of surgical treatment, and the patient's evaluation of hormonal, psychosocial, an...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to formulate practice guidelines for endocrine treatment of transsexual persons. EVIDENCE This evidence-based guideline was developed using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) system to describe the strength of recommendations and the quality of evidence, which was low or very low. CONSENSUS PROCESS Committees and members of ...

The International Diabetes Federation estimates that approximately 0.4% of the Belgian population is diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus, which is similar to other industrialized countries. The prevalence of transgenderism is estimated at 0.6% to 0.7% of all adults in Western populations. In this study, we evaluated whether there was an increased prevalence of type 1 diabetes mellitus in tr...

BACKGROUND Gender reassignment surgery due to transsexualism (International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision: F64.0) is a procedure becoming increasingly common worldwide as a result of a significant increase in diagnostic incidence. Several methods have been described for this complex surgery, but no internationally agreed upon gold standard exists, in particular with regard to which...