Erectile dysfunction and impotence has a high prevalence among male hypertensive patients. Whether this relates mainly to specific drug side effects or to primary pathogenic disorders is unknown. In the present study 101 male patients from our outpatient hypertension clinic answered detailed questionnaires about hypertension and sexual function. Patients with perceived impotence were offered a ...

Since June 1992, 280 impotent males have been submitted to colour duplex examination in the urology dept., Hamad general Hospital, Qatar, to evaluate the arterial and venous circulation of the penis and to rule out vascular causes for impotence. The examination was performed using a colour duplex Acouson 128xP/lO and 7.4MHz linear transducer. Arteriogenic impotence was diagnosed in 129 (46%) wh...

To determine the cause of brain-stem dysfunction for impotence, we studied the brain-stem function in 134 patients complaining of impotence and compared the results with their clinical records, erectile function tests, a papaverine test, dynamic cavernography and measurement of the penile brachial index. We found brain-stem dysfunction in 43% of the patients with impotence. Brain-stem dysfuncti...

We provide current, normative data on the prevalence of impotence, and its physiological and psychosocial correlates in a general population using results from the Massachusetts Male Aging Study. The Massachusetts Male Aging Study was a community based, random sample observational survey of noninstitutionalized men 40 to 70 years old conducted from 1987 to 1989 in cities and towns near Boston, ...