gonadectomy

Potential problems: Gonadectomy involves little risk beyond that of any abdominal surgery.

Testes in affected women have been found to be atrophic upon gonadectomy.

Some choose to perform gonadectomy if and when inguinal hernia presents.

Most had surgery, usually exploration and gonadectomy.

Early age gonadectomy is associated with an increased incidence of noise phobias and undesirable sexual behaviors.

Gonadectomy (also referred to as "orchiectomy") removal of the gonads.

Determining the optimal age for gonadectomy of dogs and cats (pdf)

If gonadectomy is performed late, then puberty will occur on its own, due to the aromatization of testosterone into estrogen.

If gonadectomy is performed early, then puberty must be artificially induced using gradually increasing doses of estrogen.

All had gonadectomy; some had vaginoplasties.

In Dumaresq's case, she had undergone a gonadectomy six years prior to beginning competition and had been on hormones for well over six years.

Early-age neutering (or prepubertal gonadectomy - the removal of the ovaries or testes before the onset of puberty).

Some have hypothesized that the decreased bone mineral density observed in women with CAIS is related to the timing of gonadectomy and inadequate estrogen supplementation.

CAIS is also associated with an increased risk for gonadal tumors (e.g. germ cell malignancy) in adulthood if gonadectomy is not performed.

Hormone replacement therapy is required after gonadectomy, and should be modulated over time to replicate the hormone levels naturally present in the body during the various stages of puberty.

Traditional TRT has the risk of inducing a chemical gonadectomy, although with monitoring and low-dose hCG as adjunct, this is usually preventable and reversible.

While it is recommended that women with CAIS eventually undergo gonadectomy to mitigate cancer risk, there are differing opinions regarding early versus late gonadectomy.

He was in 1917-18 one of the first female to male (FTM) transsexuals to undergo hysterectomy and gonadectomy in the United States, and lived the rest of his life as a man.

Especially in mosaic cases of Turner syndrome that contains Y-chromosome (e.g. 45,X0/46,XY) due to the risk of development of ovarian malignancy (most common is gonadoblastoma) gonadectomy is recommended.

XX gonadal dysgenesis is related to the Swyer syndrome inasmuch as both conditions have the same phenotype and clinical issues; however in Swyer syndrome the karyotype is 46,XY, and thus gonadectomy is recommended.

However, recent studies show that bone mineral density is similar whether gonadectomy occurs before or after puberty, and is decreased despite estrogen supplementation, leading some to hypothesize that the deficiency is directly attributable to the role of androgens in bone mineralization.