Practical Management: Impotence

Contemporary Issues in Management of Impotence

Sex is a man's second strongest instinct, afterthat of survival. This means that if a man's life is not immediately imperiled, the next thing he will automatically think of is sex. This is a fundamental reality of life and explains why sexual impotence or erectile dysfunction is associated with so much of distress, guilt, shame ' and embarrassment. The past decade has witnessed scientific break...

The causes and management of impotence.

IMPOTENCE may be defined as the inability of the male to develop and/or sustain an erection of the penis sufficient to conclude coitus or orgasm and ejaculation to his own satisfaction. The condition may be 'primary', i.e. early onset-present since the first attempt at coitus, or 'secondary', i.e. late onset-developing from prior competency. The causes of impotence may be arbitrarily divided in...

Impotence--recent advances in diagnosis and management.

Impotence is the consistent inability to achieve or sustain an erection of sufficient rigidity for sexual intercourse. It is an age dependent disorder with an incidence of 1.9% at 40 years and 25% at 65 years of age 1 , which increases manifold in certain diseases 2. Recent developments in the field of erectile dysfunction has now improved the understanding of the physiologic mechanisms of peni...

Sexual Impotence

Successful non-invasive management of erectile impotence in diabetic men.

The effectiveness of a device designed to overcome erectile impotence was assessed in 10 insulin dependent diabetics with no other cause for their erectile impotence. The 10 men and their partners were instructed how to use the device, which uses suction to induce penile engorgement and maintains erection with a constriction band. After three months they answered a questionnaire about its effec...