BookCarlo Bettocchi, Gian Maria Busetto, Giuseppe Carrieri, Luigi Cormio, editors.
Summary: This open access book offers a valuable resource for understanding the correct pathways in the context of sexual disorders, couple reproduction, gender identity dysphoria, conditions for which patients commonly ask for consultation and treatment. Based on clinical evidence, international guidelines and experts experience, practical clinical management strategies are presented for each condition. Each clinical care pathway is based on updated algorithm, level of evidence, photos and video-clips that describes the clinical presentations and the best practice management through diagnostic tools and medical or surgical treatment. Leading experts from the most important center of excellence in the field of sexual medicine joined to cover the field of andrology in its entirety, each of them dealing with a single topic from the top of their recognized experience and providing a complete and update textbook that will help urologists and other physicians in their daily clinical practice. This book is thought to be a practical and valuable reference for urologists, gynecologists, endocrinologists, psychiatrics and psychologists, and residents who are not specialty trained in andrology. It is designed for both young fellows training in different specialties and coming into contact with andrological issues for the first time and also more experienced clinicians and surgeons requiring updated guidelines and clear advice on the most controversial issues. This book will represent an invaluable quick consulting tool, updated in its scientific contents and rich in tables, images and video-clips.
Contents:
History of Sexual Medicine
Sexuality and sexual orientation in the 21st century
Erectile Dysfunction : from pathophysiology to clinical assessment
Erectile Dysfunction : medical therapy and rehabilitation
Erectile Dysfunction : surgical and regenerative therapy
Peyronie's disease & penile curvature
Orgasm and ejaculation disorders .-Sexual dysfunctions in women - orgasm and female genital disorders
Penile diseases and Dysmorphisms (Phimosis, frenulum, micropenis, buried penis
Andrological urgency
Andrological aspects of penile and testicular cancer
Male reproduction - from pathophysiology to clinical assessment
Seminal Analysis, value and reliability .-Therapy in oligozoospermia (varicocele, cryptorchidism, inflammation and seminal tract infections
Therapy in secretory and obstructive azoospermia
Pathophysiology of female reproduction and clinical management
Laboratory and instrumental diagnostics
Assisted Reproductive Technology : ART
Male sex hormones in Andrology today
The Transgender - Psychiatric assessment
The Transgender - Endocrinological assessment
The Transgender - Legal path to surgery
Gender Affirming Surgery - Assigned Male at Birth
Gender Affirming Surgery - Assigned Female at Birth
Medico-legal aspects in Andrology today.