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Such suggestive signs include (1) erectile dysfunction that is persistent on all occasions where an erection is required, including with a partner and without a partner during masturbation, (2) Loss of quality of morning erections, (3) Loss of quality of spontaneous erections, and (4) multi-treatment resistance to traditional erectile ...
In the early 20th century, medical folklore held that 90-95% of cases of ED were psychological in origin, but around the 1980s research took the opposite direction of searching for physical causes of sexual dysfunction, which also happened in the 1920s and 30s. [79]
As of 2016, the International Society for the Study of the Aging Male defines late-onset hypogonadism as a series of symptoms in older adults related to testosterone deficiency that combines features of both primary and secondary hypogonadism; the European Male Aging Study (a prospective study of ~3000 men) [10] defined the condition by the presence of at least three sexual symptoms (e.g ...
In men, it causes impaired muscle and body hair development, gynecomastia, decreased height, erectile dysfunction, and sexual difficulties. If hypogonadism is caused by a disorder of the central nervous system (e.g., a brain tumor ), then this is known as central hypogonadism .
Erectile dysfunction (ED), or impotence, is a sexual dysfunction characterized by the inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis. There are various underlying causes of ED, including damage to anatomical structures, psychological causes, medical disease, and drug use. Many of these causes are medically treatable.
Peyronie's disease is a connective tissue disorder involving the growth of fibrous plaques in the soft tissue of the penis.Specifically, scar tissue forms in the tunica albuginea, the thick sheath of tissue surrounding the corpora cavernosa, causing pain, abnormal curvature, erectile dysfunction, indentation, loss of girth and shortening.
Erection hardness (EH) is a key indicator of erectile dysfunction (ED) and is usually assessed through tactile methods. The Erection Hardness Score (EHS) is a simple, validated, self-reported tool that measures erection hardness on a 4-point scale: 0 (no enlargement), 1 (enlarged but not hard), 2 (hard but not for penetration), 3 (hard enough for penetration but not fully rigid), and 4 (fully ...
Symptoms: A flaccid penis that remains in a firm, semi-rigid state in the absence of sexual arousal: Usual onset: Typically following a traumatic event (an injury to the erect penis, blunt perineal trauma, cauda equina) though can also appear without an apparent cause: Causes: Excessive sympathetic activity in the erectile smooth muscle tissue ...