Congenital adrenal hiperplasia

The diagnosis comprehension and auto-image implications

Abstract

The congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is a genetic syndrome characterized as a condition of intersexuality. Seven womem with CAH were individually interviewed, under care of the clinic for Determination and Sexual Differentiation of HCFMRP-USP the aim of this alway was evaluate how they knew about the CAH. The women aged from eighteen to forty years old, five underwent genital corrective surgery, and all women belong to a low social and cultural status and education. The results indicated some kind of understanding about the syndrome. Four single women did not initiate their sexual life and three of them claimed that the syndrome was the major difficulty for that. All women did not refer physical prejudice related to vulva reconstitution and they were capable to have pleasure and orgasms.