P046 Investigating sexual side-effects in female patients on isotretinoin via routine screening questionnaires
British Journal of Dermatology (conference abstract supplement)2025
Summary (paraphrased)
This conference abstract reports on investigating sexual side effects specifically in female patients taking isotretinoin, using routine screening questionnaires administered in clinical practice. It addresses the under-studied female side of retinoid sexual dysfunction — an area where spontaneous-report data (e.g. the FAERS study in this sweep) suggest most reports come from women, yet the published literature is overwhelmingly male-focused. Full abstract text was not retrievable via API metadata at sweep time.
Why it’s in the corpus
One of very few PRSD-relevant items centered on female patients — fills a gender gap in a corpus otherwise dominated by male erectile-dysfunction data, and shows routine sexual-health screening for isotretinoin entering practice.
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