Erectile dysfunction is an important medical problem that causes untold distress both to men and their partners. The aim of this book is to provide a visual aid for physicians to use in explaining to patients that something can be done to treat their condition and helping them to understand the choices available.
Contents:
- The penis
- Physical changes during an erection
- Blood supply and nerve pathways to the penis
- Biochemical changes during an erection
- Erectile dysfunction
- Medical history
- Causes of erectile dysfunction
- Examination
- Investigations
- Night-time erections (nocturnal penile tumescences)
- Colour Doppler ultrasonography
- Cavernosometry and cavernosography
- Psychosexual therapy
- Androgen-replacement therapy
- Oral treatment
- Sildenafil: how it works
- Sildenafil: who can take it
- Intracavernosal therapy
- Self-administering intracavernosal therapy
- Intraurethral drug delivery
- Monitoring your treatment
- Topical treatment
- Vacuum devices
- Penile prostheses
- Peyronie's disease: medical treatment and corporoplasty
- Peyronie's disease: plaque incision and vein grafting
- Vascular surgery
- Ejaculation disorders
- Premature ejaculation
- Anejaculation and painful ejaculation
- Priapism
- Penile lengthening