Cardiologist: Breast implants skew heart attack test
Breast implants make it trickier to run tests that can help spot a possible heart attack, a cardiologist has said. Dr Sok-Sithikun […]
Tag: surgery
Charing Cross GRS Waiting Lists – 2015
December Updated information about the waiting lists for genital surgery at Charing Cross have been published. Please note that this is statistics […]
New Surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital
Published – 2015-12-08 Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (who provide vaginoplasty, vulvoplasty and related GRS at Charing Cross hospital) have confirmed a […]
Silicone Breast Implant Safety and Efficacy
Overview A great deal of safety research combined with more than 40 years of clinical experience has proven the efficacy and relative […]
Silicone Breast Implants Still Lack Proof of Safety
Good evidence on the safety of silicone gel breast implants is still lacking almost 10 years after they were reintroduced to the […]
Charing Cross surgery figures for August 2015
Published: August 2015 We will update our FAQs monthly in order to provide you with the most up-to-date information about our gender […]
Frequently asked questions
Published: August 2015 We will update our FAQs monthly in order to provide you with the most up-to-date information about our gender […]
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust’s male to female gender reassignment service: updated information for our patients
Sharon says – All of this is very good news, but their figures seem very low, I suspect that there are more […]
NHS trust confirms plan to replace surgeon responsible for majority of UK gender reassignment work
The NHS Trust at which the surgeon responsible for the bulk of male-female gender reassignment surgeries in the UK is based, has […]
Vaginoplasty – SRS/GRS
What is Vaginoplasty? Vaginoplasty is a major surgical procedure used to create a (neo-)vagina where either one didn’t exist before (such as […]
TGmeds Home of the “Hormones 2016” document Psychiatric Aspects of Sex Reassignment Surgery
Sex reassignment surgery is perhaps the most controversial issue in psychiatry today. Clinicians involved in the treatment of transsexualism have been accused […]
Ensuring that having a vasectomy is an informed decision
Vasectomy or male sterilisation is the surgical operation of severing or electrocoagulation (Marie Stopes method) of the two ducts (vas deferens) that […]
A follow-up study for estimating the effectiveness of a cross-gender hormone substitution therapy on transsexual patients
© Archives of Sexual Behavior : 10/1998 Authors – Schlatterer, Kathrin; Yassouridis, Alexander; Werder, Klaus von; Poland, Dorette; Kemper, Johannes; Stalla, Gunter […]
Statement on the Safety of Trilucent Breast Implants in the UK
In May 2000, the Medical Devices Agency (MDA) convened an Advisory Group (consisting of toxicologists, plastic surgeons and a lay representative) to […]
Zen And The Art Of Post-Operative Maintenance
So, you are planning your surgery. You have your reservations, your tickets, your suitcase, etc, etc. But what about when you get […]
Hysterectomy
Introduction Hysterectomy simply means the surgical removal of the uterus. Having a hysterectomy can be devastating for some women, especially those who […]
Preoperative fasting: we need a new consensus
Abstract Fasting before surgery is necessary to avoid the risk of regurgitation and vomiting; it is also a legal requirement. But the […]
How a Wife fixed up the first sex change
It was a marriage with three people in it. A wife, her husband and his female alter ego. In 1930 the Danish […]
Pre-operative fasting: putting research into practice
Abstract In this article Rebecca Jester and Suzanna Williams describe an action research project that led to a marked reduction in the […]
Hysterectomy: Nursing the Physical and Emotional Wounds
During 1997-98, over 55,000 hysterectomies were performed in England on the NHS. One in five women aged 20 – 80 years faces […]
Understanding the benefits and risks of breast augmentation
Abstract Hall, A. (2004) Understanding the benefits and risks of breast augmentation. Nursing Times; 100: 2, 30-33. There are a number of […]