Accurate and time-saving, two-step intracavernosal injection procedure to diagnose psychological erectile dysfunction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The recognition of the erectile dysfunction pathogenesis is essential to identify the appropriate erectile dysfunction management. As vascular erectile dysfunction could be a manifestation of a systemic arterial damage, the watershed in the erectile dysfunction diagnostic framework is the discrimination between psychological erectile dysfunction and vascular erectile dysfunction. However, reliable tools to directly diagnose psychological erectile dysfunction are currently lacking.

Objective

To identify which parameters could predict psychological erectile dysfunction. Moreover, we suggest a new intracavernosal injection procedure to optimize the erectile dysfunction diagnostic workup.

Materials and methods

A retrospective, real-world analysis was carried ou

SUBMITTER: Santi D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9311207 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature