Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) has been demonstrated by immunofluorescence histochemistry in nerves in human and rat penile tissue. A reduction in VIP-like immunoreactivity in nerves was revealed in tissue from streptozotocin-diabetic rats and a human diabetic with impotence. These results suggest that an impairment in the VIP-ergic innervation in penile tissue may be an important fact...

Sex is a man's second strongest instinct, afterthat of survival. This means that if a man's life is not immediately imperiled, the next thing he will automatically think of is sex. This is a fundamental reality of life and explains why sexual impotence or erectile dysfunction is associated with so much of distress, guilt, shame ' and embarrassment. The past decade has witnessed scientific break...

The painful pathological condition of the penis, priapism, is usually associated with serious destructive changes which lead to impotence if treatment is with-held or delayed. Conservative therapy is slow, uncertain and usually ineffective. Early surgical decompression of the corpora cavernosa, repeated if necessary, is essential if impotence is to be averted. Two unusual cases of this conditio...

Manipulation of Male sexual dysfunction (or Impotence) that concerns 10% of the male population requires expertise and great experience. Different diagnostic approaches according to medical as well as to psychosocial and cultural characteristics of patients are usually followed. In this paper, a GA (genetic algorithm) driven intelligent system (GADIS) for diagnosis of male impotence is presente...