Abstract

CASTRO MALDONADO, Orlando et al. Epidemiological, diagnostic and therapeutical characterization of patients with priapism. MEDISAN [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.10, pp.1238-1247. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and cross-sectional study of 32 patients with priapism, assisted at the Urology Service of the "Saturnino Lora Torres" Provincial Teaching Clinical Surgical Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, was carried out from January, 2008 to December, 2014, in order to characterize them from the epidemiological, diagnostic and therapeutical points of view. The 20-29 age group and the black skin color predominated in the series, as well as and the idiopathic etiology as the most frequent one. In the 53.1% of the patients priapism type was not determined and 46.9% of them had more than 24 hours of clinical course before receiving medical assistance. Of those who arrived between 12-24 hours only 7.1% received surgical treatment. The medical treatment was not effective in 76.5% of the patients and 54.9% of them presented erectile dysfunction

Keywords : priapism; erectile sexual dysfunction; urological emergences; penis; erection.

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