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A few cases have cropped up in the past century or so since medical care has enabled boys with hemophilia to regularly live long enough to reproduce, and enough of them have done so that chance has brough sufferers and carriers together, but once the girls hit puberty they have a distressing tendency to come near to bleeding to death once a month or so.
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So then would such a girl undergo a hysterectomy, or can this be treated with medicine?
[QUOTE=HeyHomie]
Excluding illnesses that affect specific sex organs (e.g., endometriosis, prostate cancer, uterine cancer), are there any diseases that exclusively (or almost exclusively) affect one sex?
The only example I could think of is ALD (andreno-leuko-dystrophy), which mostly affects males.
I’m sure there must be others.
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IIRC most multiple sclerosis, lupus and scleroderma cases are female.
Wouldn’t the original disorder make surgery highly undesireable? I would have thought that if the case was extreme then use of birth control would be effective enough (it’s not actually necessary to continue having periods when using the pill).
Desmoplastic small round cell tumor is usually found in males, and only very rarely in females.
Cluster headaches rarely appear in females.
[QUOTE=JThunder]
Does post-partum depression count?
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Yes. Women have twice the risk of depression as men do.
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So then would such a girl undergo a hysterectomy, or can this be treated with medicine?
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I’d think that, once you get past the initial risks of surgery, hysterectomy would be the safest approach in this case. True, the Pill can cause periods to cease, but “breakthrough” bleeding can still occur.
Elective surgery on a hemophilliac is quite possible. It involves having lots of blood on standby, as well as Factor VIII for necessary clotting afterward. Still not undertaken lightly.
[QUOTE=drachillix]
IIRC most multiple sclerosis, lupus and scleroderma cases are female.
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Although more women suffer from these than men, enough men suffer from them that I would hesistate to label them “sex specific”
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“Turner’s syndrome is only seen in females.”
nitpick, some mosaic Turner’s folks (X/XY) can be phenotypically male (others with the X/XY genotype present as Turner’s-affected females). Although it’s called “mixed gonadal dysgenesis”, it’s still a form of Turner’s syndrome.