Review of international clinical guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of late androgen deficiency in male patients


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In the last 10 years, the interest to age-related changes in male reproductive system, in particular, androgen deficiency, has been growing. The purpose of this review is to analyze the similarities and differences between the currently available guideline documents on age-related androgen deficiency diagnosis and treatment. The article considers guidelines of the American Urological Association (AUA) from 2018, the British Society for Sexual Medicine (BSSM) 2017, the Canadian Medical Association (CAM) 2015, the Endocrine Society 2018, the Endocrine Society of Australia (ESA) 2016, European Academy of Andrology (EAA) 2020, European Association of Urology (EAU) 2020, International Consensus on Sexual Medicine (ICSM) 2019, International Society for the Study of Male Aging (ISSAM) 2021, American College of Physicians (aCp) 2020, Russian Association of Endocrinologists (RAE) 2021.

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Daria V. Skuridina

N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University of the Ministry of Healthcare of Russia

Email: shurpesha@mail.ru
assistant at the Department of endocrinology of the Faculty of general medicine

Tatyana Yu. Demidova

N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University of the Ministry of Healthcare of Russia

Email: t.y.demidova@gmail.com
Dr. med. habil., professor, head of the Department of endocrinology of the Faculty of general medicine

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