Herbal therapy for men with erectile dysfunction

Herbal therapy for men with erectile dysfunction

Erectile dysfunction (ED) or male impotence is defined as inability of a man to achieve or maintain penile erection sufficient for sexual activity. It is primarily a neuronal and endothelial dysfunction of the corpus cavernosum of penile tissue, and is partly characterized by reduced production of nitric oxide (NO). Other factors that may contribute to the pathogenesis of ED include androgen de...

Surgical Therapy of Erectile Dysfunction in Men with Diabetes Mellitus

Gene therapy for erectile dysfunction.

The past decade has seen an explosion of new information on the physiology of penile erection, pathophysiology of erectile dysfunction (ED), and development of new oral agents (e.g., three PDE5 inhibitors) to manage ED. Although all three selective PDE5 inhibitors are effective in the majority of ED cases, these oral medications have failed in certain disease states, such as diabetic ED, postpr...

Lack of awareness of erectile dysfunction in many men with risk factors for erectile dysfunction

BACKGROUND Men with erectile dysfunction often have concurrent medical conditions. Conversely, men with these conditions may also have underlying erectile dysfunction. The prevalence of unrecognized erectile dysfunction in men with comorbidities commonly associated with erectile dysfunction was determined in men invited to participate in a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of s...

Stem-cell therapy for erectile dysfunction

Erectile dysfunction (ED), as a pathological phenomenon, refers to repeated or sustained difficulty to achieve and maintain sufficient penile erection to complete satisfactory sexual intercourse or sexual activity in male. The erectile reflex interruption induced by cavernous nerve (CN) damage is a direct cause of ED. In addition, the apoptosis of smooth muscle cells and endothelial cells in th...