The ISSVD , which stands for The International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Diseases is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1970 at the Sixth World Congress of the International Federation of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (FIGO) in New York City. It is composed of health care professionals from different areas, including, gynecologists, dermatologists, general practitioners, physiotherapist, nurse practitioners, etc. devoted to the study, investigation, and treatment of vulvovaginal diseases.
The ISSVD regularly promotes and develops terminology, classification, and guidelines concerning these conditions. These include, among others: vulvar dermatosis (lichen sclerosus, lichen planus),[1] [2] vulvar pain (vulvodynia),[3] [4] [5] vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia,[6] etc. More recently, a guideline concerning female cosmetic genital surgery was published.[7]
Presidents and world congresses of the ISSVD [ edit ]
PRESIDENTS and WORLD CONGRESSES of the ISSVD
CONGRESS
LOCATION
City/Province
DATES
PRESIDENT
I
SPAIN
Marbelca
Aug. 8, 1973
Dr. Guillermo R. di Paola
II
USA
Key Biscayne
Jan. 9-11, 1975
Dr. J. Donald Woodruff
III
MEXICO
Cocoyoc
Oct. 22-24, 1976
Dr. Herman L. Gardner
IV
FRANCE
Montbazon
May 2–25, 1978
Dr. Jean Hewitt
V
USA
Maui
Oct. 21-23, 1979
Dr. Raymond H. Kaufman
VI
ENGLAND
Cambridge
Sept. 22-24, 1981
Dr. Charles P. Douglas
VII
USA
Lake Buena Vista
Sept. 25-29,1983
Dr. Eduard G. Friedrich
VIII
FINLAND
Mariehamn
Sept. 9-12, 1985
Dr. Peter J. Lynch
IX
AUSTRALIA
Queensland
Aug. 30-Sept 3, 1987
Dr. Barry L. Kneale
X
USA
Washington, DC
Oct. 22-26, 1989
Dr. Edward J. Wilkinson
XI
ENGLAND
Oxford
Sept. 22-26, 1991
Dr. C. Marjorie Ridley
XII
CANADA
Quebec
Sept. 26-30, 1993
Dr. Michel Roy
XIII
ARGENTINA
Iguazu
Sept. 17-20, 1995
Dr. Nidia Gomez Rueda
XIV
ITALY
Baveno
Sept. 14-20, 1997
Dr. Dale Brown, Jr.
XV
USA
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Sept. 26-Oct. 2, 1999
Dr. Mario Sideri
XVI
PORTUGAL
Sintra/Porto
Sept. 30-Oct. 6, 2001
Dr. Marilynne McKay
XVII
BRAZIL
Salvador
Oct. 12-16, 2003
Dr. Jose Martinez de Oliveira
XVIII
NEW ZEALAND
Queenstown
Feb. 20-24, 2006
Dr. Ronald W. Jones
XIX
ALASKA
Inside Passage Cruise
July 28- Aug. 3, 2007
Dr. Libby Edwards
XX
SCOTLAND
Edinburgh
Sept. 13-17, 2009
Dr. Allan B. MacLean
XXI
FRANCE
Paris
Sept. 5-8, 2011
Dr. Micheline Moyal-Barracco
XXII
ROYAL CARIBBEAN
Mediterranean
Oct. 6-13, 2013
Dr. Jacob Bornstein
XXIII
NEW YORK
New York
July 27–29, 2015
Dr. Hope Haefner
XXIV
ARGENTINA
Mendoza
September 11–15, 2017
Dr. Claudia Marchitelli
XXV
ITALY
Torino
September 16–20, 2019
Dr. Mario Preti
Terminology, classification, and guidelines [ edit ]
Year
Document
2005
The vulvodynia guideline
2006
2006 ISSVD classification of vulvar dermatoses: pathologic subsets and their clinical correlates
2011
2011 ISSVD Terminology and classification of vulvar dermatological disorders: an approach to clinical diagnosis
2013
2013 Vulvodynia Guideline update
2015
The 2015 International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease (ISSVD) Terminology of Vulvar Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions
2015
2015 ISSVD, ISSWSH, and IPPS Consensus Terminology and Classification of Persistent Vulvar Pain and Vulvodynia
2018
International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease Recommendations Regarding Female Cosmetic Genital Surgery
References [ edit ]
^ Lynch, Peter J.; Moyal-Barracco, Micheline; Moyal-Barrocco, Micheline; Bogliatto, Fabrizio; Micheletti, Leonardo; Scurry, James (January 2007). "2006 ISSVD classification of vulvar dermatoses: pathologic subsets and their clinical correlates". The Journal of Reproductive Medicine . 52 (1): 3–9. ISSN 0024-7758 . PMID 17286059 .
^ Lynch, Peter J.; Moyal-Barracco, Micheline; Scurry, James; Stockdale, Colleen (October 2012). "2011 ISSVD Terminology and Classification of Vulvar Dermatological Disorders" . Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease . 16 (4): 339–344. doi :10.1097/lgt.0b013e3182494e8c . ISSN 1089-2591 .
^ Stockdale, Colleen K.; Lawson, Herschel W. (April 2014). "2013 Vulvodynia Guideline Update" . Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease . 18 (2): 93–100. doi :10.1097/lgt.0000000000000021 . ISSN 1089-2591 .
^ Haefner, Hope K.; Collins, Michael E.; Davis, Gordon D.; Edwards, Libby; Foster, David C.; Hartmann, Elizabeth Dee Heaton; Kaufman, Raymond H.; Lynch, Peter J.; Margesson, Lynette J. (January 2005). "The vulvodynia guideline". Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease . 9 (1): 40–51. ISSN 1089-2591 . PMID 15870521 .
^ "Qu'est-ce que la vulvodynie, ce trouble qui touche de nombreuses femmes ?" . RTL.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-07-24 .
^ Bornstein, Jacob; Bogliatto, Fabrizio; Haefner, Hope K.; Stockdale, Colleen K.; Preti, Mario; Bohl, Tanja G.; Reutter, Jason (January 2016). "The 2015 International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease (ISSVD) Terminology of Vulvar Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions" . Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease . 20 (1): 11–14. doi :10.1097/lgt.0000000000000169 . ISSN 1089-2591 .
^ Vieira-Baptista, Pedro; Almeida, Gutemberg; Bogliatto, Fabrizio; Bohl, Tanja Gizela; Burger, Matthé; Cohen-Sacher, Bina; Gibbon, Karen; Goldstein, Andrew; Heller, Debra (July 2018). "International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease Recommendations Regarding Female Cosmetic Genital Surgery" . Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease : 1. doi :10.1097/lgt.0000000000000412 . ISSN 1526-0976 .
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