Long-term effects of testosterone treatment in female-to-male transsexuals on iron homeostasis and erythropoiesis

• In: Poster Presentation
• At: Stockholm (Sweden) (2017)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: P-E-022-Monday
• By: MENACHO ROMAN, Miriam (Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain)
• Co-author(s): Miriam Menacho-Roman: Department of Biochemistry, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain
  Antonio Becerra-Fernandez: Gender Unit, CC Biomedicas, Universidad de Alcala, Madrid, Spain
  Domingo Ly-Pen: Croydon UCC, Croydon University Hospital, London, United Kingdom
  Gilberto Perez-Lopez: Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain
  Marta García-Collía: Department of Biochemistry, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain
  
• Abstract:

  Backgrounds

  The transsexuals are persons that having born with a biological sex feel to belong to the opposite sex. To obtain the sexual characters opposite to his (her) biological sex they need treatment with cross-sex hormones. This treatment with sexual steroids, as testosterone, can produce changes in sex hormones and parameters related to iron

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