There has been a surge in patients wanting to reverse their transgender surgery, according to a leading doctor in Serbia, the global hub of transgender corrective surgery.

Dr Miroslav Djordjevic, a urologist in Belgrade, has been treating patients from all over the world for about 10 years.

His clinic in the capital of a country that is openly hostile to LGBT groups, became an unlikely haven for transgender patiets.

But now, Dr Djordjevic has told The Telegraph that he is seeing an increase in the number of patients seeking reversal surgery.

He warns the majority of people exploring reversals did not receive sufficient psychiatric screening before undergoing the procedure - and he urges the medical community not to antagonize people that change their mind.

Dr Miroslav Djordjevic (pictured), a urologist in Belgrade, has seen about 14 patients who have changed their minds. He said all of those patients got their initial procedures elsewhere, at clinics where he feels they did not receive sufficient psychiatric screening

'Definitely reversal surgery and regret in transgender persons is one of the very hot topics,' he told the newspaper.

'Generally, we have to support all research in this field.'

Dr Djordjevic, who splits him time between Serbia and New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, says he has performed seven reversals in the past five years at his clinic in Belgrade.

A further eight are in consultation or undergoing operations.

Most are seeking reattachment of male genitalia, a complicated procedure which costs upwards of $20,000.

The news comes amid a huge rise in the rate of gender reassignment patients.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons found a nearly 20 percent increase in vaginoplasties, phalloplasties, top surgery and contouring operations in just the first year of reporting.

Increasingly, insurance companies are offering coverage for surgery for patients with gender dysphoria - a disconnect between how an individual feels and what their anatomic characteristics are.

Gender confirmation procedures can include everything from facial and body contouring to reassignment surgeries.

In 2016, more than 3,200 surgeries were performed to help transgender patients feel more like themselves.

Surgeons in the field claim that figure is a conservative estimate - and would likely three times higher if all hospitals had a uniform way of documenting such surgeries.

However, Dr Djordjevic warns that while the medical community is beginning to embrace this kind of surgery, there is a stigma surrounding reversals.