Until sildenafil, the first effective oral agent for erectile dysfunction (ED), was introduced, only genitourinary physicians concerned themselves with this problem. Certainly cardiologists rarely asked their patients with cardiovascular disease about difficulty developing or maintaining a penile erection. Physicians knew that ED could be caused by atherosclerosis of the internal iliac arteries...

A 25-year-old female with simple virilizing type of congenital adrenocortical hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency was treated surgically with masculinizing operations which consisted of two-stage procedures. The first procedure was chordectomy associated with excision of both gonads and female internal genitalia. Eleven months later, the second procedure consisting of urethroplasty and...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to evaluate changes in the International Index of Erectile Dysfunction (IIEF) score following periodontal treatment in patients who had severe or moderate erectile dysfunction (ED) and chronic periodontitis (CP). MATERIALS AND METHODS The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. The study population consisted of 120 patients with severe or mod...

The field of erectile dysfunction (ED) management over time has witnessed assorted interventions to enable men to perform sexual intercourse. In recent times, major progress in ED research has led to increasingly effective treatments based on a refined knowledge of the scientific basis for penile erection. Current concepts suggest that therapeutic prospects on the horizon include novel pharmaco...

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Penile ultrasound is commonly used in the diagnostic workup of a patient with erectile dysfunction (ED), but also plays an important role by providing an anatomic and functional vascular assessment in a multitude of other conditions including Peyronie’s disease, high-flow priapism, penile fracture, penile urethral strictures, urethral stones, or diverticulae, or masses involving deep tissues of...