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Clinical approach to dyspareunia
1Department of Gynecology, Center of Medical Sexology, Hospital San Raffaele, EUR, Via Chianesi 53, Rome, Italy. graziott@tin.it
Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy
|September 14, 2001
Abstract:
Dyspareunia needs to be addressed from an integrated patient-centered perspective. This review analyzes the organic causes of pain during intercourse. Factors that are often underevaluated in the clinical setting include hormonal, inflammatory, muscular, iatrogenic, neurologic, vascular, connective, and immunitary causes. Psychosexual factors, such as vaginismus, loss of libido, arousal disorders and sexual pain-related disorders, often overlap. A preliminary clinical approach aimed at integrating different biological and psychosexual etiologies in a comprehensive manner is discussed in this article.