Pubertal Suppression in Transgender Youth
Front Cover -- Pubertal Suppression in Transgender Youth -- Pubertal Suppression in Transgender Youth -- Copyright -- List of Contributors -- Contents -- 1 - History of Care of Transgender Youth -- DEDICATION -- REFERENCES -- 2 - Models of Care and Current Guidelines for Care of Transgender Individuals -- GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE -- MULTIDISCIPLINARY CARE -- PRACTICE GUIDELINES -- MENTAL HEALTHCARE -- MEDICAL CARE -- ADJUNCTIVE SERVICES -- BARRIERS TO CARE -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- 3 - Puberty -- PHYSICAL CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH PUBERTY -- Female Changes -- Male Changes -- Age at Onset -- Growth Spurt -- Changes in Body Composition -- Other Changes of Puberty -- PHYSIOLOGY OF PUBERTY -- Endocrine Changes From Fetal Life to Puberty -- Changes at Birth and the Mini Puberty of INFANCY -- The Juvenile Pause or the Mid-Childhood Nadir of Gonadotropin Secretion -- Peripubertal Gonadotropin Increase -- Sex Steroid Secretion -- Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Stimulation -- Leptin and Puberty -- Ovulation and Menarche -- Adrenarche -- DELAYED PUBERTY OR ABSENT PUBERTY (SEXUAL INFANTILISM) -- Constitutional Delay in Growth and Adolescence -- Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism -- Central nervous system disorders -- Other acquired central nervous system disorders -- Developmental defects -- Radiation therapy -- Isolated gonadotropin deficiency -- Idiopathic hypopituitary dwarfism (growth hormone deficiency in the absence of defined anatomic or organic defects) -- Miscellaneous disorders -- Chronic disease and malnutrition -- Anorexia nervosa -- Increased physical activity -- Hypothyroidism -- Hypergonadotropic Hypogonadism -- PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY (SEXUAL PRECOCITY) -- Central (Complete or True) Precocious Puberty -- Idiopathic central (complete or true) isosexual precociious puberty -- Genetic causes of central precocious puberty