Intracavernous papaverine for impotence in spinal cord injured patients

Development, Validity and Reliability of Sexual Health Measures for Spinal Cord Injured Patients in Iran

Tracheostomy in Spinal Cord Injured Patients

Patients with cervical spinal cord injury frequently need prolonged mechanical ventilation as a result of worsening pulmonary vital capacity due to paralysis of respiratory muscles, severe impairment of tracheobronchial secretions clearance and high incidence of respiratory complications like pneumonia or atelectasis. Patients with thoracic spinal cord injury may need mechanical ventilation due...

Intracavernous injection of papaverine for erectile failure.

Once an adrenal origin has been excluded the treatments available for PCO are temporary or symptomatic. Clomiphene can only be used short term under well-controlled conditions in women who want to have children. Anti-androgens can suppress hirsutism but their long-term effects are unknown and they do have to be taken continuously. Only wedge excision of both ovaries permits a full resumption of...

Transcavernous Installation of Papaverine Hydrochloride in Impotence

Impotence is syndrome involving the interaction of psychogenic, hormonal, neurological, arterial, venous & sinusoidal factors. Management of impotence has evolved from a time-born pattern of sympathetic discussion and empiric use of medication to a scientifically planned diagnostic protocol and specific treatment regime. The present study was undertaken to assess the effects of pharmacologicall...

Spinal Cord-Injured Rats

Opérant conditioning of the spinal stretch reflex or its electrical analog, the H-reflex, is a new model for exploring the mechanisms of long-term supraspinal control over spinal cord function. Primates and rats can gradually increase (HRup conditioning mode) or decrease (HRdown conditioning mode) the H-reflex when reward is based on H-reflex amplitude. An earlier study indicated that HRdown co...