Patient Pictures Erectile Dysfunction

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