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Anesthesia for gender-affirming surgery: a practical review

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology
Purpose of review Gender-affirming surgery (GAS) is an effective, well studied, and often necessary component of gender-affirming care and mitigation of gender dysphoria for transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals.
K. Sanchez, L. Tollinche, Travis L. Reece-Nguyen   +2 more
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Geographic Variability of Genital Gender-Affirming Surgery Centers and Costs of Hospitalization

Annals of Plastic Surgery
Purpose The cost of gender-affirming surgery (GAS) is an important component of healthcare accessibility for transgender patients. However, GAS is often prohibitively expensive, particularly as there are inconsistencies in insurance coverages ...
Erin J. Kim, Stephen A. Stearns, V. P. Bustos, Toni F. Engmann, A. Dowlatshahi, Bernard T. Lee, Ryan P. Cauley   +6 more
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Trends of Medicare Reimbursement Rates for Gender-Affirming Surgery Procedures

Annals of Plastic Surgery
Background Awareness of Medicare reimbursement is important for gender-affirming surgeons who treat transgender patients with Medicare. In 2014, Medicare began to provide coverage for medically necessary transition-related surgery.
Justin J. Cordero, Leonardo Alaniz, Sandhya Kalavacherla, S. Tholpady, Michael W. Chu   +4 more
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Patterns of Perioperative Hormone Therapy for Gender-Affirming Surgery

Annals of Plastic Surgery
Introduction There is no consensus regarding perioperative hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for gender-affirming surgery (GAS). Common concerns for continuing perioperative HRT included risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or hematoma.
Ya-Ching Hung, Patrick E. Assi, Benjamin C. Park, Sriya V Nemani, Sara C. Chaker, Teja D. Williams, B. Drolet, S. Kassis   +7 more
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Genitourinary Complications of Gender-Affirming Surgery

Current Urology Reports, 2019
Gender-affirming surgery has become a more common procedure in the last 5 years. Feminizing genitoplasty typically involves inversion of penile skin as a neovagina, urethral shortening, and glans reduction to create a neoclitoris. Masculinizing genitoplasty is more complex, typically is performed in multiple stages, and has more inherent urologic risks.
Campbell, Bryson, Stanton C, Honig
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Chest Feminization and Masculinization Surgery: Part Two of the Plastic Surgeon's Perspective of Gender-Affirming Surgery.

Plastic and Aesthetic Nursing
Transgender individuals commonly feel significant distress and discomfort, termed gender dysphoria, as a result of the discrepancy between their gender assigned at birth and their gender identity.
Eva S. Hale, Alexander R. Gibstein, Taylor Smartz, Tanya Boghosian, S. Jabori, Sara Danker   +5 more
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Facial Gender Affirmation Surgery: Craniomaxillofacial Imaging

Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, 2019
Abstract Facial procedures directed at gender affirmation are uniquely tailored to the individual patient and may affect soft tissue and skeletal structures over the entire face—from the chin through the upper forehead. Complete photographic and radiographic documentation that addresses these areas is important from the ...
David E, Morris, Linping, Zhao
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Gender-Affirming Surgery and Tobacco Use: A Systematic Review

Transgender Health
Purpose: Tobacco use is the leading global cause of preventable disease and death, and transgender and gender-expansive (TGE) people demonstrate elevated tobacco use.
J. Hinds, Talya R. Gordon, Jung-Yun Min, Kaitlin L. Cuddleston, Caroline Delbourgo Patton, Andrea H. Weinberger   +5 more
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Accessibility and Insurance Coverage for Gender-affirming Surgery in Canada: A Cross-Sectional Analysis

Plastic Surgery
Purpose: While visibility and acceptance of the transgender community have increased across Canada, barriers persist in accessing gender-affirming surgeries (GAS).
Alan Gou, M. Bonapace-Potvin, Blair R. Peters   +2 more
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Gender dysphoria and gender-affirming surgery: The New York state experience.

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
BACKGROUND Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) individuals experience incongruence between their self-identified gender versus their birth-assigned sex. In some cases, TGNC patients undergo gender-affirming surgical (GAS) procedures. Although GAS
Joshua Zhu, Emily Wang, Steven Liu, Chad Gueli, Aurora D. Pryor, A. L. Shroyer, Aleksandra Krajewski   +6 more
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