Main description:

Gender Affirmation: Medical and Surgical Perspectives -- This sensitively written, comprehensive book is a must-have roadmap for every physician and caregiver as they master the techniques to support the profound journey of their transgender patients.

The rapid evolution of transgender medicine and surgery has inspired an ever-growing number of practitioners to care for transgender individuals. What was once a niche specialty has now sparked the interest of the international medical community. With the formation of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) and academic surgical centers now accepting trainees, a new generation of physicians are committed to providing the highest level of care for transgender individuals.

This book delivers robust, essential content from internationally recognized innovators and veterans in the field, including cutting-edge techniques for all gender transition surgeries. These experts provide detailed coverage of the processes that help patients transition to their true gender, including:

Facial Feminization Surgery
Speech Modification
Top and Bottom Surgeries
Management of Unfavorable Outcomes
Treating Transgender Adolescents and Children
Hormone Therapy
Mental Health Care for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Patients
Sexual Health Issues After Gender Affirmation Surgery
Gender Expression and Image

An e-book and video clips are also provided to allow readers to access these topics in any setting. Gender affirmation surgery is among the most challenging of all surgical procedures because of the anatomic complexities, the risk of complications, the need to preserve sensorineural, urinary, and sexual function while striving to obtain optimal aesthetic results.

Contents:

Introduction

1 Facial Feminization Surgery: A Global Approach

2 Speech Modification

3 Top Surgery

4 Combined Hysterectomy, Oophorectomy, and Chest Reconstruction in Female-to-Male Transgender Patients

5 Male-to-Female Gender Affirmation Skin-Flap Vaginoplasty

6 Male-to-Female Gender Affirmation Colon Vaginoplasty: Total Laparoscopic Sigmoid Vaginoplasty

7 Female-to-Male Gender Affirmation Metoidioplasty

8 Female-to-Male Gender Affirmation Phalloplasty: Radial Forearm Free Flap

9 Anterolateral Thigh Flap Phalloplasty

Expert Commentary

10 Female-to-Male Gender Affirmation Phalloplasty: Latissimus Dorsi Flap

11 Testicular and Erectile Implants in Transmen After Phalloplasty

12 Management of Unfavorable Urologic Sequelae After Phalloplasty in Transgender Patients

13 Unfavorable Results and Complications in Phalloplasty Surgery

14 Medical Treatment of Adolescent Transgender Patients

15 Adult Hormone Therapy in Transgender Patients

16 Mental Health Care for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Children, Adolescents, and Adults

17 Sexual Health After Surgery for Transgender Individuals

18 Gender Expression and Image