Repercussions of intestinal ostomy on male sexuality: an integrative review - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem

INTRODUCTION

The intestinal ostomy, also known as stoma and ostomy, consists of an artificial opening, produced surgically, whose purpose is to divert the flow of effluents to the external environment. Such a condition can impact the lives of affected individuals due to transformations that affect human multi-dimensionality, including negative repercussions involving sexuality^(–).

In the United States of America, it is estimated that approximately 120 thousand surgeries are performed every year that require the construction of an ostomy, and 700 thousand Americans, among children and older adults, at some point in their lives have already needed this procedure for intestinal or urinary diversion⁽⁾. In Brazil, this estimate reaches 1 million and 400 thousand surgical procedures per year, totaling approximately 34 thousand people who are irreversibly ostomized in the country⁽⁾.

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