Infections Following Gender-Affirming Vaginoplasty: A Single-Center Experience

Authors

Radhika Sheth, Oregon Health & Science University
Apoorva Bhaskara, Oregon Health & Science University
Haley Brown, Oregon Health & Science University
Cara D. Varley, Portland State University
Amber Streifel, Oregon Health & Science University
Marissa Maier, Oregon Health & Science University
Monica K. Sikka, Oregon Health & Science University
Christopher Evans, Oregon Health & Science University

Published In

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-11-2024

Subjects

Post Surgery, Surgical site infections

Abstract

We describe the epidemiology and incidence of infections following gender-affirming vaginoplasty. Urinary tract and surgical site infections were the most common infections with incidences of 17.5% and 5.5%, respectively. We also identified a significant gap in human immunodeficiency virus screening and prescription of preexposure prophylaxis.

Rights

© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Locate the Document

https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofae526

DOI

10.1093/ofid/ofae526

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/42712

Citation Details

Sheth, R., Bhaskara, A., Brown, H., Varley, C. D., Streifel, A., Maier, M., Sikka, M. K., & Evans, C. (2024). Infections Following Gender-Affirming Vaginoplasty: A Single-Center Experience. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 11(10).