Guiding the conversation-types of regret after gender-affirming surgery and their associated etiologies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A rare, but consequential, risk of gender affirming surgery (GAS) is post-operative regret resulting in a request for surgical reversal. Studies on regret and surgical reversal are scarce, and there is no standard terminology regarding either etiology and/or classification of the various forms of regret. This study includes a survey of surgeons' experience with patient regret and requests for reversal surgery, a literature review on the topic of regret, and expert, consensus opinion designed to establish a classification system for the etiology and types of regret experienced by some patients.

Methods

This anonymous survey was sent to the 154 surgeons who registered for the 2016 World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) conference and the 2017

SUBMITTER: Narayan SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8105823 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature