Biomaterial Database

Impotence--some causes and cures. 1978

D C Renshaw

Transient organic causes of impotence include alcohol consumption, drug use or inflammatory genital disease. Many diagnoses of organic impotence, with diabetes, for example, have been premature and have resulted in iatrogenic, psychogenic impotence. After a stroke, heart attack or major surgery, depression may cause impotence. Anxiety and sexual ignorance are major etiologic factors. Thus, sex education and uncomplicated sex therapy can achieve a high percentage of cure. Penile plethysmography during sleep provides useful information. Penile prostheses are helpful for appropriately motivated couples when there is permanent impotence.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007172	Erectile Dysfunction	The inability in the male to have a PENILE ERECTION due to psychological or organ dysfunction.	Impotence,Male Impotence,Male Sexual Impotence,Dysfunction, Erectile,Impotence, Male,Impotence, Male Sexual,Sexual Impotence, Male
D008297	Male		Males
D010413	Penis	The external reproductive organ of males. It is composed of a mass of erectile tissue enclosed in three cylindrical fibrous compartments. Two of the three compartments, the corpus cavernosa, are placed side-by-side along the upper part of the organ. The third compartment below, the corpus spongiosum, houses the urethra.	Glans Penis,Penis, Glans
D010991	Plethysmography	Recording of change in the size of a part as modified by the circulation in it.	Plethysmographies
D003863	Depression	Depressive states usually of moderate intensity in contrast with MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER present in neurotic and psychotic disorders.	Depressive Symptoms,Emotional Depression,Depression, Emotional,Depressive Symptom,Symptom, Depressive
D004644	Emotions	Those affective states which can be experienced and have arousing and motivational properties.	Feelings,Regret,Emotion,Feeling,Regrets
D005832	Genital Diseases, Male	Pathological processes involving the male reproductive tract (GENITALIA, MALE).	Male Genital Diseases,Disease, Male Genital,Diseases, Male Genital,Genital Disease, Male,Male Genital Disease
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001523	Mental Disorders	Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.	Mental Illness,Psychiatric Diseases,Psychiatric Disorders,Psychiatric Illness,Behavior Disorders,Diagnosis, Psychiatric,Mental Disorders, Severe,Psychiatric Diagnosis,Illness, Mental,Mental Disorder,Mental Disorder, Severe,Mental Illnesses,Psychiatric Disease,Psychiatric Disorder,Psychiatric Illnesses,Severe Mental Disorder,Severe Mental Disorders
D012736	Sex Education	Education which increases the knowledge of the functional, structural, and behavioral aspects of human reproduction.	Education, Sex,Sexuality Education,Education, Family Planning,Family Planning Education,Family Planning Instructors,Family Planning Training,Education, Sexuality,Family Planning Instructor,Instructor, Family Planning,Instructors, Family Planning,Training, Family Planning