Aim: The Standards of Care (SOC-8) by the World Professional Association for Trans Health provide guidelines for the care of transgender and gender diverse individuals through safe and effective multi-professional interventions for physical and mental well-being. The aim of this work is to summarize the SOC-8 recommendations for childhood and adolescence, highlighting the importance of psychosocial assessment and available medical and surgical therapeutic options, and emphasizing the need for healthcare provider training.
Methods: The SOC-8 recommendations are based on scientific evidence and professional consensus from experts in transgender health, developing classification criteria and access to therapies, based on systematic literature reviews (PubMed and Embase).
Background: Sexuality research on the sexual practices of women who have sex with women (WSW) has thus far mostly centered on risk factors and addressed a limited number of practices, with a focus on oral sex and insertive vaginal sex.
Aim: This study arises from the need to fill such a significant gap, which prevents researchers, clinicians, and policy makers from being adequately up-to-date on the sexual habits and tendencies of this population.
Methods: A multiple-choice questionnaire was completed by 723 WSW with a mean (SD) age of 29.
Objectives: Therapeutic termination of pregnancy (TToP) may have psychiatric outcomes like depression, anxiety and post-traumatic-stress disorder (PTSD).
Material And Methods: 45 couples had psychiatric evaluation before TToP and after one-year period.
Results: TToP is linked to acute development of depressive symptoms that recover with time and professional support.
Child abuse is an important source of mental and physical adverse consequences for victims, their family, and their community. The impact of violence during childhood on the development of the victim is a very sensitive theme. Other than internalizing symptoms, it is interesting to analyze the possibility that a victim may assume the role of persecutor.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aims: The concept of "Food Addiction" has been based on criteria of Substance Use Disorder. Several studies suggested a relationship between food addiction and eating disorders, but little is known about its extent or role. We aim at exploring if food addiction is coincident with a specific eating disorder (binge eating disorder appears the closest) or it is a separate diagnostic entity that afflicts in comorbidity with eating disorders or other conditions like obesity or even in the general population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe therapeutic termination of pregnancy (TToP) is an induced abortion following a diagnosis of medical necessity. TToP is applied to avoid the risk of substantial harm to the mother or in cases of fetal unviability. This type of induced abortion is provided after the second semester of gestation if fetal illness or the pregnancy cause physical danger or pathological mental distress to the mother.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDelirium is a phenomenon classified within neuro-cognitive disorders in the DSM-5. It has several etiologies and it is often lethal. This contribute aims at analyzing clinical characteristics and diagnostic possibilities of delirium in patients affected by covid-19.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Cannabis use during pregnancy may adversely affect the health of pregnant women and their fetus. Several recent surveys led in the US general population in the last decade showed an increase in cannabis use during pregnancy from 1.95 to 7%, with a 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo vinification methods involving different degrees of antioxidant protection of Falanghina must during prefermentative steps, and referred as HAMP (high antioxidant must protection) and LAMP (low antioxidant must protection), were compared in terms of fermentation performances of four different yeast strains, composition of the volatile fraction of wines at the end of alcoholic fermentation, and shelf life of wines during storage. The use of HAMP technology resulted in wines with lower volatile acidity and higher concentrations of medium-chain fatty acid ethyl esters, acetates, and volatile fatty acids. For two of the four strains a lower concentration of isoamyl alcohol was also observed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFG Ital Dermatol Venereol
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The authors report an acroosteolysis case with sensory radicular ulcero-mutilating neuropathy. The differential diagnosis are discussed and the case is presented as an intermediate form between the congenital sensory neuropathy, type II, according to Otha classification, and the non-progressive, sporadical sensory neuropathy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe AA. present a good contribution to the Mallet Finger therapy: it consists in the fixation of the last interphalangea articulation in yperextension by K. wire in the phalanx soft tissues, completing the treatment with splint in extension.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 40-year-old woman with a history of injury to the left foot was initially treated for an ankle sprain. When the initial roentgenograms were reassessed, os peroneum fracture with diastasis was diagnosed. This may be the second case of fracture of the uncommon anomaly to be reported in the literature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFifteen patients suffering from osteoporosis of different aetiology and receiving long-term carbocalcitonin treatment were studied in order to evaluate the tolerance of the drug. Only one of these patients, with intolerance of any type of calcitonin, was obliged to discontinue the treatment, tolerance being excellent in all the others. Blood-chemistry tests, performed at various intervals, revealed no significant changes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe authors report the results of intra- and peri-articular orgotein treatment in 30 arthritic patients. The patients were examined before, during and at the end of the course of treatment and showed substantial improvement. Negative and mediocre results were more frequent in cases of gonarthrosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAuthors describes movements Which elbow must make To play Tennis, and what of this, if incorrectly, leads to Tennis elbow; the backhand drive is the most responsible Authors brief remembered the importance of equipments in Tennis elbow.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAuthors reported the results of clinical experiments on the use of Ceftriaxone in the prophylaxis of post operative orthopaedic and traumatological complications in 30 patient. The absence of post operative infection and the good tolerance confirm its usefulness for antibiotic prophylaxis in orthopaedic surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAfter a careful description of the surgical method according to Regnauld for the bloody treatment of valgus big toe, followed by them since 1974, the Authors show their casuistry. The results are considered from the aesthetic and functional standpoint; the single patients' opinion is also reported. The Authors, as a conclusion, declare themselves satisfied pith this method, which not only gives excellent aesthetic and functional results, but also caused no relapses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAuthors, after briefly remembered the etiopathogenesis, pathological and therapeutic aspects of subcutaneous ruptures of patellar and quadriceps tendons, present one case of bilateral simultaneous lesions in R.A.
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