Scientific Updates (ordered by topic)

Comorbidity

• The pelvic floor: sexual and medical co-morbidities
• Medical and sexual comorbidities in urogynaecology in the lifespan: clinical approach

Contraception

• The impact of combined contraceptive vaginal ring on vaginal environment: an observational, longitudinal study - New document
• Safety, efficacy and patient acceptability of the combined estrogen and progestin transdermal contraceptive patch: a review
• A Review of Transdermal Hormonal Contraception: Focus on the Ethinylestradiol/ Norelgestromin Contraceptive Patch

Endometriosis

• A proof of concept that experience-based management of endometriosis can complement evidence-based guidelines

Female Sexual Dysfunction

• Female sexual dysfunctions: future of medical therapy
• Clinically relevant changes in sexual desire, satisfying sexual activity and personal distress as measured by the profile of female sexual function, sexual activity log, and personal distress scale in postmenopausal women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder
• Patient scenario: a 53-year-old woman with hypoactive sexual desire disorder
• Aetiology, diagnostic algorithms and prognosis of female sexual dysfunction
• Epidemiology of female sexual dysfunction
• Biological and Psychosocial Pathophysiology of Female Sexual Dysfunction During the Menopausal Transition
• The prevalence of hypoactive sexual desire disorder in surgically menopausal women: an epidemiological study of women in four European Countries
• Relationship between hypoactive sexual desire disorder and aging
• Are the Endocrine Society’s Clinical Practice Guidelines on androgen therapy in women misguided? A Commentary
• Prevalence and evaluation of sexual health problems – HSDD in Europe
• Introduction to female sexual disorders
• Classification, etiology, and key issues in female sexual disorders
• Sexual desire disorders in women
• Sexual aversion disorders in women
• Sexual arousal disorders in women
• Orgasmic disorders in women
• Iatrogenic and post-traumatic female sexual disorders
• Female sexual disorders: future trends and conclusions
• Female sexual dysfunction: Treatment
• Female sexual dysfunction: Assessment
• Hyperactive sexual desire in women: myth or reality?
• Sexual desire disorders: Clinical approach
• Women’s right to a better sexual life
• Prevalence of hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) in surgically menopausal (SM) women in Western Europe: results from the Women's International Study of Health and Sexuality (WISHES) Study
• Female sexual dysfunction: clinical approach

Female Sexual Function

• Anatomy and physiology of women's sexual function
• Vaginal pH and Sexuality
• Androgènes et régulation de la réponse sexuelle féminine

Fertility and Infertility

• Patologie tiroidee e infertilità femminile

Gynaecology

• Maintaining vulvar, vaginal and perineal health: clinical considerations - New document
• Microbiota: the secret director of the human health
• La vagina: quesiti clinici e bisogni terapeutici disattesi
• Vulviti da Staphylococcus aureus: un’infezione insidiosa che sottolinea l’importanza di una appropriata igiene intima
• Androgeni e sindrome genitourinaria della menopausa. Perché, quando e per chi sono indicati
• "The shorter, the better": a review of the evidence for a shorter contraception hormone-free interval
• Vaginal biological and sexual health: the unmet needs
• Can Lactobacillus fermentum LF10 and Lactobacillus acidophilus LA02 in a slow-release vaginal product be useful for prevention of recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis? A clinical study
• The recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis: proposal of a personalized therapeutic protocol
• Vulvar Vestibulitis Syndrome: a Clinical Approach

Inflammation and pain

• Mast cells in chronic inflammation, pain and depression
• Role of mastcells in chronic inflammation, depression and pain

Male Sexual Dysfunction

• What does premature ejaculation mean to the man, the woman and the couple?
• Partner satisfaction and successful treatment outcomes for men with erectile dysfunction (ED)
• The role of erection hardness in determining erectile dysfunction (ED) treatment outcome
• Psychological, social, and behavioural benefits for men following effective erectile dysfunction (ED) treatment: men who enjoy better sex experience improved psychological well-being
• Effective erectile dysfunction (ED) treatment enables men to enjoy better sex: the importance of erection hardness, psychological well-being, and partner satisfaction
• Out of the shadow: how premature ejaculation can affect the woman and the couple
• Are subjects with erectile dysfunction aware of their condition? Results from a retrospective study based an Italian free-call information service

Menopause

• Eccesso ponderale e infiammazione in menopausa: fisiopatologia di un binomio pericoloso e ruolo degli stili di vita
• Sindrome endocrino-metabolica in menopausa
• Hormone therapy for first-line management of menopausal symptoms: practical recommendations
• Menopause and sexuality: key issues in premature menopause and beyond
• The woman, patient after WHI
• Correlates of sexual functioning in Italian menopausal women
• Depression and the menopause: why antidepressants are not enough?
• Depressione e climaterio (Depression and menopause)
• Therapeutic options for postmenopausal female sexual dysfunction
• The ageing woman
• Climacteric medicine: European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS) 2004/2005 position statements on peri- and postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy
• Hypoactive sexual desire disorder in menopausal women: a survey of western european women
• Does participation in an epidemiological study improve appropriate prescription of screening mammography for asymptomatic women?
• Arthralgias, bodily aches and pains and somatic complaints in midlife women: etiology, pathophysiology and differential diagnosis
• Menopausa e fisiopatologia della funzione sessuale nella donna (Menopause and pathophysiology of sexual function in women)
• Effect of premature menopause on sexuality
• Testosterone and libido in surgically and naturally menopausal women
• Hormonal therapy after menopause
• Premature menopause: the challenge of accelerated sexual aging
• Testosterone substitution therapy and women's sexual health
• Premature menopause and sexual outcomes
• Hormone Replacement Therapy and sexuality
• Angeliq© - A new HRT
• Testosterone substitution in women

Oncology

• The European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists recommendations for the management of young women with breast cancer
• Breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women using testosterone in combination with hormone replacement therapy

Pain Therapy

• Opioids: how to improve compliance and adherence
• The mastcell, director of chronic pelvic pain orchestra: implications for the the gynaecologist

Pelvic Pain

• Psychogenic causes of Chronic Pelvic Pain and impact of CPP on psychological status

Pregnancy and Puerperium

• The love-shaper: role of the foetus in modulating mother-child attachment through stem cell migration to the maternal brain
• Cellule d'amore: il ruolo affettivo della migrazione di cellule fetali nel sistema limbico materno

Sexual Medicine

• Pathogenic biofilms as triggers of recurrent vaginitis and cystitis
• Medical treatments for sexual problems in women
• Similarities and differences between female and male sexual functions and dysfunctions
• Improvement in sexual quality of life of the female partner following vardenafil treatment of men with erectile dysfunction: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study
• Botulinum toxin treatment of pelvic floor disorders and genital pain in women
• Central nervous system abnormalities in vaginismus
• Sexuality after breast cancer
• Coexisting idiopathic cervical dystonia and primary vaginismus: a case report
• Sexual arousal: similarities and differences between men and women

Sexual Pain Disorders

• Occhio clinico - Dolore al rapporto sessuale: l’anamnesi è essenziale per ottimizzare la diagnosi
• Why Deny Dyspareunia Its Sexual Meaning?
• Mast cells and their role in sexual pain disorders
• Vulvodynia: a state-of-the-art consensus on definitions, diagnosis and management
• Sexual pain disorders: dyspareunia and vaginismus
• Sexual pain disorders
• Sexual pain disorders in adolescents

Sexual Transmitted Diseases

• Gonorrea, un'infezione minacciosa in ginecologia e ostetricia
• Sifilide: perché è una malattia più insidiosa nelle donne
• HPV infection in women: psychosexual impact of genital warts and intraepithelial lesions
• HPV infection in women: psychosexual impact of genital warts and intraepithelial lesions
• HPV infection in women: clinical consequences, psychosexual impact and the chances of prevention

Uro-Gynaecology

• Recurrent cystitis after intercourse: why the gynaecologist has a say
• Sexual function and sexual distress in women with interstitial cystitis: a case control study

Vulvar Pain

• The role of recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis and comorbidities in the etiology of vestibulodynia: data from the Vu-Net Study - New document
• Dolore vulvo-vaginale, candidosi recidivante e rischio familiare per il diabete. I fattori critici emersi dallo studio Vu-Net su 1183 casi - Parte 2
• Dolore vulvare e diagnosi di comorbilità. I fattori critici emersi dallo studio Vu-Net su 1183 casi - Parte 1