The bulbocavernosus reflex was investigated electrophysiologically in 14 normal adult male subjects and in 80 patients with neurogenic bladders and/or impotence due to various neurological causes as well as in patients with functional impotence. The glans penis was stimulated superficially by single electrical shocks and the reflex responses were recorded from the bulbocavernosus (BC) and the s...

important, albeit in certain quarters neglected, factor in life?genital physiolog}^, and in clear language treats of the etiology, semeiology, and therapeutics of impotence. Undoubtedly the author's views regarding the significance of pollutions, and the due exercise of the genital organs, will not meet with unanimous approval ; but, set forth as they are in manifest good faith by one of vast e...

THREE LINES OF PUBLISHED WORK SUGGEST AN ASSOCATION BETWEEM IMPOTENCE OR ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION (ED) AND SLEEP APNEA. First, there are collections of patients in which reports of impotence are found to be present at the time of diagnosis of sleep apnea;1,2 one study reported that symptoms of impotence are improved in 40% of patients after treatment of sleep apnea;3 and another reported an associa...

INTRODUCTION Vasculogenic impotence is one of the major causes of erectile dysfunction. Cavernosometry and cavernosography is traditionally the gold standard for evaluation of venogenic impotence. However, it is invasive and there are potentially significant complications. Penile colour flow Doppler imaging (PCDI) is non-invasive and can be used to assess venous incompetence. MATERIALS AND ME...

neuropathy almost guarantees that the impotence is organic and irreversible. If tests of autonomic function are normal erectile capacity may usefully be measured directly by recording nocturnal erections during rapid eye movement sleep.8 9 With this technique a mercury-in-rubber strain-gauge is placed round the base of the penis and connected to a device which records erections during dreaming....