5-alpha-reductase deficiency (patient information)
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What is 5-alpha-reductase deficiency?
How do I know if I have 5-alpha-reductase deficiency and what are the symptoms of 5-alpha-reductase deficiency?
- Infancy: Some patients with 5-alpha reductase deficiency may show female external genitalia. Some may appear male external genitalia. Others show with ambiguous genitalia.
- Puberty: Patients raised as girls often appear virilisation, such as amenorrhoea, hirsuitism, deepening of the voice, descending of the testes, enlarged clitoris or microphallus, and the urethra attaching to the phallus.
- Adulthood:
Who is at risk for 5-alpha-reductase deficiency?
How to know you have 5-alpha-reductase deficiency?
When to seek urgent medical care?
Treatment options
Diseases with similar symptoms
Where to find medical care for 5-alpha-reductase deficiency?
Directions to Hospitals Treating 5-alpha-reductase deficiency
Prevention of 5-alpha-reductase deficiency
What to expect (Outook/Prognosis)?
Copyleft Sources
http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition=5alphareductasedeficiency