Male-to-Female Gender Reassignment Surgery: An Institutional Analysis of Outcomes, Short-term Complications, and Risk Factors for 240 Patients Undergoing Penile-Inversion Vaginoplasty.

Objective: To report outcomes, complications, and risk factors of a population cohort undergoing male-to-female gender affirmation surgery via penile-inversion vaginoplasty by a single surgeon at a large academic institution. As gender dysphoria awareness increases among the medical community, so does the population of patients seeking gender-affirmation surgery.

Materials And Methods: A prospectively maintained database of patients undergoing penile-inversion vaginoplasty was retrospectively queried for all available patients with at least 1 week of postoperative follow-up.

Use of Google Trends to Track Online Behavior and Interest in Kidney Stone Surgery.

Objective: To explore internet search trends data as a unique resource for monitoring online health information-seeking behavior. We utilized Google trends to sample population interest and search inquiries into surgical treatment options of kidney stones, and we examined the relative frequency of searches across the United States.

Methods: Google trends was queried via the Google Insights for Search (http://google.

Complications of the neovagina in male-to-female transgender surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis with discussion of management.

Gender-affirmation surgery is often the final gender-confirming medical intervention sought by those patients suffering from gender dysphoria. In the male-to-female (MtF) transgendered patient, the creation of esthetic and functional external female genitalia with a functional vaginal channel is of the utmost importance. The aim of this review and meta-analysis is to evaluate the epidemiology, presentation, management, and outcomes of neovaginal complications in the MtF transgender reassignment surgery patients.