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Impotence: treatment by autoinjection of vasoactive drugs
G Williams1, M J Mulcahy, E A Kiely
1Department of Surgery, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London.
British Medical Journal (Clinical Research Ed.)
|September 5, 1987
Abstract:
One hundred and twenty five men with psychogenic or organic impotence used autoinjection of the penile corpora cavernosa with either papaverine or papaverine and phentolamine for a mean period of 10.5 months (range 1-24 months) to achieve penile erection for sexual intercourse. Prolonged (over four hours) painless erection resulted from 34 of the 3513 self administered injections. This seems to be a highly effective approach to treating impotence irrespective of the aetiology.