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Author Finlayson, Courtney, author.

Title Pubertal suppression in transgender youth / Courtney Finlayson, MD
Published Philadelphia : Elsevier, [2018]
©2018
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 105 pages) : illustrations
Contents Front Cover; Pubertal Suppression in Transgender Youth; Pubertal Suppression in Transgender Youth; Copyright; List of Contributors; Contents; 1 -- History of Care of Transgender Youth; DEDICATION; REFERENCES; 2 -- Models of Care and Current Guidelines for Care of Transgender Individuals; GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE; MULTIDISCIPLINARY CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; MENTAL HEALTHCARE; MEDICAL CARE; ADJUNCTIVE SERVICES; BARRIERS TO CARE; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; 3 -- Puberty; PHYSICAL CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH PUBERTY; Female Changes; Male Changes; Age at Onset; Growth Spurt; Changes in Body Composition
Other Changes of PubertyPHYSIOLOGY OF PUBERTY; Endocrine Changes From Fetal Life to Puberty; Changes at Birth and the Mini Puberty of INFANCY; The Juvenile Pause or the Mid-Childhood Nadir of Gonadotropin Secretion; Peripubertal Gonadotropin Increase; Sex Steroid Secretion; Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Stimulation; Leptin and Puberty; Ovulation and Menarche; Adrenarche; DELAYED PUBERTY OR ABSENT PUBERTY (SEXUAL INFANTILISM); Constitutional Delay in Growth and Adolescence; Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism; Central nervous system disorders; Other acquired central nervous system disorders
Developmental defectsRadiation therapy; Isolated gonadotropin deficiency; Idiopathic hypopituitary dwarfism (growth hormone deficiency in the absence of defined anatomic or organic defects); Miscellaneous disorders; Chronic disease and malnutrition; Anorexia nervosa; Increased physical activity; Hypothyroidism; Hypergonadotropic Hypogonadism; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY (SEXUAL PRECOCITY); Central (Complete or True) Precocious Puberty; Idiopathic central (complete or true) isosexual precociious puberty; Genetic causes of central precocious puberty; Peripheral or Incomplete Isosexual Precocious Puberty
Peripheral or incomplete isosexual precocious puberty in genotypic femalesVariations of Puberty; Premature thelarche; Premature adrenarche; FURTHER READING; 4 -- GnRH Analogs (Mechanism, Past Studies, Drug Options, Use in Precocious Puberty, Use in Gender-Nonconforming Youth); HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; PHYSIOLOGY AND MECHANISM OF ACTION; USE IN CENTRAL PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; OUTCOMES IN CENTRAL PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; USE IN GENDER-NONCONFORMING YOUTH; OPTIONS FOR TREATMENT; OUTCOMES IN GENDER-NONCONFORMING YOUTH; CHALLENGES IN CARE; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES
5 -- Rationale for the Initiation, Use, and Monitoring of GnRHa in Gender Non-conforming YouthINTRODUCTION; RATIONALE; INITIATION; MONITORING; Clinical Monitoring; Hormone Monitoring; Radiographic Monitoring; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 6 -- Psychosocial Considerations in Pubertal Suppression Treatment; INTRODUCTION; POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE ANALOGUES ON GENDER IDENTITY AND/OR SEXUALITY DEVELOPMENT; UNKNOWN NEUROCOGNITIVE SEQUELAE OF PUBERTAL SUPPRESSION TREATMENT; PSYCHOSOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF KNOWN MEDICAL SIDE EFFECTS OF GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE ANALOGUE TREATMENT
Notes Fertility Considerations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Gender transition.
Transgender youth -- Endocrinology
Luteinizing hormone releasing hormone.
Sex Reassignment Procedures
Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone
Gender transition
Luteinizing hormone releasing hormone
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780323569644
0323569641