Provides an authoritative, comprehensive and clinically-orientated guide to both the background causes and full range of treatment options for patients suffering from impotence and sexually-related dysfunction. The book is a concise and practical text, enhanced with specially commissioned computer graphics and full color illustrations. It is one of the first titles to comprehensively cover the new developments in treatment of female sexual dysfunction. Throughout, there is a wealth of information on new therapies, and the very latest information on drug treatment. The book includes innovative treatment algorithms, summary boxes, and patient vignettes, and has been produced to a tight time-frame to ensure a current approach.Encompasses the very latest developments in the field, thanks to an especially brief production schedule.Discusses the neuroanatomy and physiology of male and female sexual response, and evaluates the role of factors such as hormones, diabetes, hypertension, and depression in causing sexual dysfunction.Explores new oral therapies for male and female sexual dysfunction · new therapies for ejaculation dis¬orders, including rapid ejaculation · MUSE and intracavernosal therapies · vacuum devices, gels, injections, and penile implants · gene therapy · and future directions in treatment.Presents specially commissioned computer graphics and full-color illustrations that make pathophysiology and treatment principles easy to understand.
Author(s): Allen D. Seftel MD, Harin Padma-Nathan MD FACS FRCS, Christopher G. McMahon MB BS FACSHP, Francois Giuliano MD PhD, Stanley E. Althof PhD
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 287
Male and Female Sexual Dysfunction......Page 1
Copyright......Page 2
Foreword......Page 3
Preface......Page 4
Contributors......Page 5
CHAPTER 1 Central Neurophysiology of Penile Erection......Page 7
CHAPTER 2 Pathophysiology of Male Erectile Dysfunction......Page 23
CHAPTER 3 Premature Ejaculation: Cause and Treatment
According to Evidence-based Medical Research......Page 34
CHAPTER 4 The Ejaculatory Response......Page 46
CHAPTER 5 Ejaculatory Dysfunction......Page 61
CHAPTER 6 Androgens in Male Sexual Physiology......Page 87
CHAPTER 7 Oral Type 5 Phosphodiesterase Therapy for Male and Female Sexual Dysfunction......Page 108
CHAPTER 8 MUSE and Intracavernosal Therapies......Page 121
CHAPTER 9 Vacuum Devices and Penile Implants......Page 129
CHAPTER 10 Prostate Cancer and Erectile Dysfunction......Page 144
CHAPTER 11 Cardiovascular Safety of Sexual Activity and
Phosphodiesterase Type 5 Inhibition......Page 158
CHAPTER 12 Gene Therapy for Erectile Dysfunction......Page 181
CHAPTER 13 Peyronie’s Disease......Page 189
CHAPTER 14 Hypogonadism and Androgen Replacement
Therapy......Page 201
CHAPTER 15 Priapism......Page 217
CHAPTER 16 Primary Care Issues in the Management of
Erectile Dysfunction......Page 227
CHAPTER 17 Treating Psychogenic Erectile Dysfunction......Page 232
CHAPTER 18 Erectile Dysfunction in the Elderly: Epidemiology,
Etiology, and Approaches to Treatment......Page 238
CHAPTER 19 Defining Female Sexual Dysfunction......Page 252
CHAPTER 20 Female Androgen Insufficiency Syndrome......Page 261
CHAPTER 21 Female Sexual Dysfunction......Page 269
Index......Page 280
