Erectile Dysfunction At A Glance

• Erectile dysfunction (ED), also known as impotence, is the inability to achieve or sustain an adequate erection for satisfactory sexual activity.
• Erectile dysfunction in men is suprisingly fairly common; experts have estimated that erectile dysfunction affects 30 million men within the Untied States alone.
• The potential causes of erectile dysfunction are wide and varied and include aging, high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, cigarette smoking, atherosclerosis, depression, nerve or spinal cord damage, medication side effects, alcoholism or other substance abuse. Low testosterone levels have also been shown as an impotence cause. Erectile dysfunction is treatable in all age groups.
• Impotence treatments include psychotherapy, adopting a healthy lifestyle, oral PDE5 inhibitors (Viagra, Kamagra, Levitra, and Cialis), intraurethral medications, intracavernosa injections, vacuum devices, surgery, and working with doctors to avoid medications that can impair erectile function.

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Male erectile dysfunction also known as impotence is defined as the inability to achieve or maintain a penis erection sufficient for mutually satisfying sexual intercourse. Erectile dysfunction is different from other conditions that interfere with sexual intercourse, such as lack of sexual desire and problems with ejaculation or orgasm.

• How common is impotence or erectile dysfunction?
• What is normal penis anatomy?
• How does an erection occur?
• How is the erection sustained?

Historically, when an individual consulted his physician concerning sexual/erectile dysfunction he was usually informed there were no known physiological answers concerning his condition. Today, a generation of men's erectile dysfunction and impotence research has resulted in significant advances in both the diagnosis and treatment of men's sexual dysfunction. Physicians now understand that approximately eighty-five percent of erectile dysfunction and impotence causes are attributable to physical/organic conditions while only fifteen percent of male impotence problems are due to psychological or mixed origin (both psychological and organic).

The ability to achieve and sustain erections require:

Erectile dysfunction can occur if one or more of these requirements are not met. The causes of impotence include

A diagnosis of erectile dysfunction is made in men who have repeated inability to achieve and/or maintain an erection for satisfactory sexual performance for at least 3 months. Candid communication between the patient and the doctor is important in establishing the diagnosis of erectile dysfunction, assessing its severity, and determining the impotence cause. During patient interviews, doctors try to answer the following questions:

• Patient history
• Physical examination
• Laboratory tests
• Other impotence tests
• Psychosocial examination

Treatments for impotence and erectile dysfunction in 2008 include:

• Adjusting medications
• Lifestyle improvements
• What medications are used to treat erectile dysfunction?
• How effective is testosterone in treating erectile dysfunction?
• Oral phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitors such as Sildenafil (Kamagra)
• How effective is sildenafil (Kamagra)?
• How should sildenafil (Kamagra) be administered?
• What is the dose of sildenafil (Kamagra)?
• What are the side effects of sildenafil (Kamagra)?
• Is it safe for men with heart disease to use sildenafil (Kamagra)?
• Intracavernosal injections - What are intracavernosal injections?
• Intraurethral suppositories - What are intraurethral suppositories?
• Vacuum devices - What are vacuum devices?
• Surgery for impotence or erectile dysfunction
• What about psychological therapy?
• What will the future bring for erectile dysfunction?

 

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Portions of the above information has been provided by the National Institutes of Health (www.nih.gov) and MedicineNet (www.medicinenet.com)