key articles
Acceptance of and Discontinuation Rate from Erectile Dysfunction Oral Treatment in Patients following Bilateral Nerve-Sparing Radical Prostatectomy
Friday, 26 October 2007 - Radical prostatectomy (RP) is a common treatment for patients with clinically localized prostate cancer (PCa). This procedure is mostly associated with patients’ postoperative quality of life such as...
Authors: Salonia et al.
A typology of men's sexual attitudes, erectile dysfunction treatment expectations and barriers
Tuesday, 23 October 2007 - Erectile dysfunction (ED) is frequent and bothersome but underreported and undertreated, despite the availability and publicity of phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE-5) inhibitors, such as sildenafil (Viagra,...
Authors: Berner et al.
Erectile dysfunction after radiotherapy for prostate cancer and radiation dose to the penile structures: A critical review
Wednesday, 17 October 2007 - Van der Wielen et al. (2007) reviewed erectile dysfunction (ED) after radiotherapy for prostate cancer and radiation dose to the penile structures. ED is a common sequela after external beam...
Authors: van der Wielen
Hypogonadism is associated with overt depression symptoms in men with erectile dysfunction
Wednesday, 3 October 2007 - Depression and hypogonadism are associated with erectile dysfunction (ED). Makhlouf et al. (2007) evaluated the prevalence of both conditions in men presenting to an ED specialty clinic, and...
Authors: Makhlouf et al.
Assessment of sexual function/dysfunction via patient reported outcomes
Wednesday, 3 October 2007 - The recent recognition of the high prevalence of sexual dysfunctions and disorders in our society, along with the substantial investment of the pharmaceutical industry in the field of sexual...
Author: Derogatis
Inflammation, Metabolic Syndrome, Erectile Dysfunction, and Coronary Artery Disease: Common Links
Wednesday, 3 October 2007 - Erectile dysfunction (ED) may be the early clinical manifestation of a generalized vascular disease and carries an independent risk for cardiovascular events. Low-grade subclinical inflammation affects...
Authors: Vlachopoulos et al.
Improvement of erectile function with Prelox: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial
Wednesday, 3 October 2007 - In a randomly allocated, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover design, Stanislavov et al. (2007) treated 50 patients with mild to moderate erectile dysfunction (ED) for 1 month with placebo or a...
Authors: Stanislavov et al.
Erectile dysfunction and coronary slow flow: distinct presentations of endothelial disease
Wednesday, 26 September 2007 - Nurkalem et al. (2007) studied the degree of erectile dysfunction (ED) in males with slow coronary flow (SCF).
Endothelial dysfunction was proposed to be the underlying mechanism in both diseases....
Authors: Nurkalem et al.
Erectile dysfunction in spinal cord-injured men: different treatment options
Wednesday, 26 September 2007 - Moemen et al. (2007) evaluated the efficacy, safety and patients' preference of different treatment modalities of erectile dysfunction (ED) in men with spinal cord-injury (SCI).
Sixty SCI men with...
Authors: Moemen et al.
Psychological features in men with erectile dysfunction with or without preclinical atherosclerosis
Monday, 24 September 2007 - Psychological distress was assessed by Mihalca et al. (2007) with a multidimensional self-report questionnaire (Symptom Check-List-90R) in 247 men complaining of erectile dysfunction (ED), with or...
Authors: Mihalca et al.
