Humans and diseases are related to each other since the creation. With passage of time, humans were able overcome different diseases. But still, they could not find out solution for those people who born in wrong bodies. The progress medical science ultimately enabled them restore their originality through corrective surgery or sex reassignment surgery. soon this was also misused like researche...

This special issue represents a comprehensive, multidisciplinary look on gender dysphoria. We invited investigators to contribute original research articles as well as review articles that will further encourage the continuing efforts to understand the role of gender dysphoria, sex reassignment surgery, modalities of surgical treatment, and the patient's evaluation of hormonal, psychosocial, an...

Colovaginoplasty is a surgical technique using a segment of the colon along its vascular pedicle to form neovagina and its lining. This surgery is usually performed on women with androgen insensitivity syndrome, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, vaginal agenesis, müllerian agenesis, and in sex reassignment surgery. We report a case sigmoid diverticulitis in a 64 years old female with history of c...

The paper considers and rejects two arguments against the performance of sexual reassignment surgery. First, it is argued that the operation is not mutilating, but functionally enabling. Second, it is argued that the operation is not objectionably deceptive, since, if there is such a thing as our 'real sex', we do not know (ordinarily) what it is. The paper is also intended to shed light on wha...

BACKGROUND Gender reassignment surgery due to transsexualism (International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision: F64.0) is a procedure becoming increasingly common worldwide as a result of a significant increase in diagnostic incidence. Several methods have been described for this complex surgery, but no internationally agreed upon gold standard exists, in particular with regard to which...

A simple but efficient method to improve readability of discrete pseudo time-frequency representations (TFRs) of nonstationary signals by the reassignment of the representations in discrete frequency dimension is presented. The method does not rely on the nonzero time derivative of the window function employed in the estimation of pseudo TFR. This property of the reassignment method is advantag...

INTRODUCTION Controversies on clitoral anatomy and its role in female sexual function still make clitoral reconstructive surgery very challenging. We evaluated the role of clitoral anatomic features in female to male sex reassignment surgery. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 97 female transsexuals, aged from 18 to 41 years, who underwent single stage metoidioplasty between March 2008 a...

Time-frequency reassignment is a relatively old but under-explored method for time frequency analysis. This report reviews previous research on reassignment and relates it to instantaneous frequency in an explicit and novel way. New measures based on reassignment of the amplitude spectrum, as opposed to the traditional phase spectrum, are proposed and analysed. The statistical properties of rea...

A long-term follow-up study of 55 transsexual patients (32 male-to-female and 23 female-to-male) post-sex reassignment surgery (SRS) was carried out to evaluate sexual and general health outcome. Relatively few and minor morbidities were observed in our group of patients, and they were mostly reversible with appropriate treatment. A trend toward more general health problems in male-to-females w...