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  • Title: Nocturnal penile tumescence predicting response to intracorporeal pharmacological erection testing.
    Author: Allen RP, Brendler CB.
    Journal: J Urol; 1988 Sep; 140(3):518-22. PubMed ID: 3411665.
    Abstract:
    Although response to intracorporeal pharmacological erection testing has been proposed to determine the etiology of impotence, physiological criteria predicting this response have not been established and the literature includes conflicting results regarding which patients respond to pharmacological erection therapy. In this study 37 impotent patients underwent a diagnostic nocturnal penile tumescence evaluation (including measurements of rigidity, pulsations and bulboischiocavernosus muscle activity) and the results were correlated with subsequent response to intracorporeal pharmacological testing. Most but not all patients with psychogenic impotence and all with neurogenic impotence responded with good erections. For vasculogenic impotence response rate depended upon impairment severity determined from nocturnal penile tumescence measurements; none of the severe cases versus 90 per cent of the milder cases responded. The results indicate that response to intracorporeal pharmacological testing does not accurately distinguish psychogenic from organic impotence, is best for neurogenic impotence and worst for severe vasculogenic impotence, and can be predicted accurately by nocturnal penile tumescence measurements.
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