Full Description
This books focuses on all main medical disorders that affect the sexual health of patients.
From the medical disorder and its impact on sexuality and from the sexual symptom as signal of underlying disease, this book highlights the importance of the sexual interview as essential element of medical history.
The aim is to increase the scientific knowledge in human sexuality and sexual health in order to optimize the identification of the pathophysiology of sexual dysfunction from disease and to increase the quality of life of patients, promoting the proactivity of doctors in the care of the sexual sphere.
Many medical disorders have negative effects on the different dominions of sexual function (desire, arousal, orgasm, ejaculation, and pain). Chronic disease also affects subsidiarily sexual function in many ways, including fatigue, pain, dependency impairment of self-image and impacting relationships. On the other hand sexual symptoms may be a signal of serious underlying disease.
This book will be of benefit to GPs, gynecologists, andrologists, sexual medicine professionals, and all healthcare providers interested in the topic.
Contents
How to talk on sexuality in a medical consultation.- Sexuality across lifespan.- Chronic pain and female sexual dysfunctions (Chronic pelvic pain, endometriosis Fibromyalgia, chronic fatige and other chronic pain ).- Sexual pain.- Pelvic floor disorders and Female sexuality I: Urinary Incontinence.- Pelvic floor disorders and Female sexuality II: Pelvic floor disorders.- Male sexuality and prostate cancer.- Male Sexual Dysfunctions in the infertile couple.- Endocrine disorders and sexuality I: Hypophisis, thyroid and adrenal glands.- Endocrine disorders and sexuality II: Ovary.- Endocrine disorders and sexuality III: Diabetes and sexual disorders.- Endocrine disorders and sexuality IV: Obesity and sexual dysfunction.- Lower Gastrointestinal Cancer and Sexual Function.- Sexuality in Adult Cancer Survivors in the era of Precision Oncology.- Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation and Sexual Disorders.- Breast cancer and Sexual health.- Chronic respiratory diseases and sexual function.- Hypertension and sexual health.- Heart diseases and sexual health.- Sexual Health in Post Stroke Patients.- Multiple sclerosis and Sexual dysfunction.- Psychosomatic diseases and sexuality.- Depression and sexual health.- Psychopatology and sexuality.- Sexual health in disability.- Sexual activity after total hip replacement.- Sexual activity after hip preservation surgery: hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement and periacetabular osteotomy.- Sexual health and chronic dermatosis.- STD and sexuality.
