(Adnkronos) - “Quei soggetti che definivamo erroneamente affetti da condizione di intersesso, nella maggior parte dei casi hanno patologie genetiche, urologiche e uroandrologiche. La maggiore criticità è che non ci sono specialisti per patologie urologiche di transizione”. Ad affermarlo all’Adnkronos, a margine del 97.simo congresso nazionale della Società italiana da urologia, in corso a Bari, è Andrea Salonia, responsabile ufficio formazione SIU.
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00:00Professor Andrea Salonia, the urological pathologies of transplantation are one of the themes at the center of the 97th SIU Congress. What are the main criticisms?
00:14The first criticism is that there are no specialists who deal with it, not especially from the male point of view, which means that everything that concerns genitalia from the urological and andrological point of view is neglected.
00:28Today, teenagers are followed by the pediatric world and young adults no longer find a reference figure.
00:37This reference figure is identified in the urologist, who has a particular interest and expertise in the genital area,
00:45and who will take care of both the harmonious growth of sexuality, reproductive capacity, health and all of the male sex individual,
00:54not only in terms of the areas of genitalia, but also in terms of the well-being of these subjects,
01:03which at one time we mistakenly defined as affected by intersex conditions,
01:08but which in most cases have genetic, endocrinological and uro-andrological pathologies,
01:14which in the modern world will have a figure in the urologist of great prospective reference.
01:20And then the whole issue of the commissioning, in subsequent phases, how should it be managed?
01:24The commissioning takes into account two aspects.
01:28First, the so-called today, in which subjects who are about 16 years old lose the pediatric-teenage reference
01:38and are commissioned by an individual who has expertise in the genital area, urologist-andrologist.
01:46The future of these subjects will have multiple facets,
01:51since they certainly have an area of great interest in the world of so-called hypogonadism,
01:57that is, everything that concerns the field of the production of testosterone and its functional exploitation,
02:04but also everything that concerns cardiovascular health, so first and foremost the heart,
02:09bone-muscle health, psychological health,
02:13health, if we want, also in harmony with their future reproductive path and their sexuality.