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Case Reports
. 2019 Oct 20;55(10):705.
doi: 10.3390/medicina55100705.

A Case of Paraphilia with Osteoporosis and Administered with Depot Leuprorelin

Dohee Kim  1 , Kyoung Min Kim  2 , Myung Ho Lim  3
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A Case of Paraphilia with Osteoporosis and Administered with Depot Leuprorelin

Dohee Kim et al. Medicina (Kaunas). .

Abstract

Paraphilia is a complex psychological and psychiatric disorder that has been difficult to treat. Leuprorelin has been used as one of the therapeutic methods for paraphilia. Leuprorelin administration could change insulin resistance and accelerate bone loss. The case study in this work was a 59-year-old man who visited a hospital with the chief complaints of frotteuristic behaviors in public places, a continuous increase in sexual desire, and sexual molestation behavior that started in 2007. We injected leuprorelin (3.6 mg) intramuscularly every month for this patient with paraphilia and comorbidities of osteoporosis and hyperthyroidism. The clinical global impression (CGI), Sex Addiction Screening Test (SAST), Wilson Sex Fantasy Questionnaire (WSFQ), physical examination, and laboratory tests were performed. After 12 months of leuprorelin injection for paraphilia, we found a significant improvement in abnormal sexual behavior/desire without aggravation of osteoporosis/hyperthyroidism. Gonadotrophin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH) analogs could be used as alternative or supplementary treatment methods for paraphilia with osteoporosis/hyperthyroidism.

Keywords: hyperthyroidism; leuprorelin; osteoporosis; paraphilia.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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