Introduction: Transgender health remains a challenge for healthcare professionals, given the fast evolution of concepts related to gender roles and sexual identity, with frequent updates to definitions and nomenclature. Also, being a delicate and divisive theme in society, it generates distress, suffering, and stigmatization for people experiencing these processes. Besides, there is often significant inaction b...
Hirschsprung disease is the most common congenital gut motility disorder and usually diagnosed in the neonatal period. It is caused by an aganglionic bowel segment resulting in absence of intestinal peristalsis and functional obstruction. Diagnosis should be considered in all patients with constipation that does not respond to conventional treatment. Radiography and contrast enema are important diagnostic exams...
Hirschsprung disease is the most common congenital gut motility disorder and usually diagnosed in the neonatal period. It is caused by an aganglionic bowel segment resulting in absence of intestinal peristalsis and functional obstruction. Diagnosis should be considered in all patients with constipation that does not respond to conventional treatment. Radiography and contrast enema are important diagnostic exams...
A síndrome de Insensibilidade Completa aos Androgénios (CAIS) é uma doença recessiva ligada ao cromossoma X causada por mutação no gene do recetor androgénico. É uma patologia do desenvolvimento sexual com uma incidência de 1/20000-100000 nados vivos do sexo masculino. Carateriza-se pela presença de genitais externos femininos em indivíduos 46,XY com testículos criptorquídicos e ausência de resposta a níveis de...