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Male Sexual Dysfunction

- Annexes

Figure 1: Personalized Management Algorithm:

 

Figure 2: Management algorithm for



Table 4: Comparison of the properties of phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors (PDE5i) (42)

Property

Sildenafil

Tadalafil

Vardenafil

Avanafil

 

TMAX

30–120min

30–360min

30–120min

30–45min

 

Terminal half life

4h

17.5h

4h

6–17h

 

Available doses

25mg,50mg,100mg

5mg,10mg,20mg

5mg,10mg,20mg

50mg,100mh,200mg

 

Max dose

100mg

20mg

20mg

200mg

 

Efficacy

Each offer similar efficacy

Side effects

(5 most common)

Headache, flushing, dyspepsia, nasal congestion, alteration in color vision

Headache, dyspepsia, back pain, myalgia, nasal congestion

Headache, flushing, rhinitis, dyspepsia,

sinusitis

Headache, flushing, rhinitis,

dyspepsia, sinusitis

 

Use with α-blockers.

 

- Concomitant use of selective α-blockers does not present a risk for significant hypotension

- There is a risk of significant hypotension when using non-selective α-blockers

Contraindications

 

- Regularly or intermittent use of organic nitrates.

- Known hypersensitivity to any component of the tablet

Dose adjustments that may be needed

· Patients aged > 65 years.

· Hepatic impairment

· Renal impairment

· Concomitant use of potent cytochrome P450 3A4 inhibitors (e.g. ritonavir, cobicistat and erythromycin)

· Concomitant use of cimetidine with sildenafil

TMAX = time to maximum plasma concentration.


Table 5: Clinical History, Physical Examination, Laboratory Investigations and Radiologic Assessment in Different Types of Priapism (119,120).

 

Variant

History and clinical examination

Penile blood appearance

Penile blood gas

findings

Color Duplex

ultrasonography

findings

Ischemic priapism

Tender and rigid corpora cavernosa

Corpus cavernosum

testing: blood is hypoxic

and dark in color

pO2> 30 mmHg

pCO2>60 mmHg

pH<7.25

Minimal or absent blood

flow

Nonischemic priapism

Perineal or

penile trauma; non tender, partially tumescent corpora cavernosa

Corpus cavernosum

testing: blood is

oxygenated and red

pO2<90 mmHg

pCO2<40 mmHg

pH=7.4

similar to normal

arterial blood)

Blood flow is normal to

high in velocity

Stuttering (recurrent)

priapism

Similar attacks

Corpus cavernosum

testing: blood is hypoxic

and dark in color

Blood gases:

pO2<30 mmHg; pCO2>60 mmHg

pH <7.25

Minimal or absent

blood flow during acute

priapism; normal blood

flow otherwise

pCO2, partial pressure of carbon dioxide; pO2, partial pressure of oxygen.


Table 6: Percutaneous distal shunts, open distal shunts, open proximal shunts, and vein anastomoses/shunts

Distal shunts

 

Example

Technique

Percutaneous distal shunts

Winter (corporoglanular)

shunt large biopsy needle is inserted through glans

Ebbehoj (corporoglanular)

shunt #11 blade scalpel is percutaneously passed

T shunt (corporoglanular shunt)

Modified Ebbehoj using #10 blade scalpel and introducing the scalpel rotating it inside 90°

Open distal shunt

Al-Ghorab

 

A 1 cm incision is made distal to coronal sulcus with

excision of 5 × 5 mm cone segment of distal tunica

albuginea from each corporal body

Burnett ‘snake’ maneuver

 

Modification of Al-Ghorab shunt. A Hegar dilator is

used to evacuate ischemic blood through a distal

tunical window

Proximal shunts

Open proximal shunt

Quackels or Sacher (corporospongiosal) shunt

 

In lithotomy position, bulbocavernosus muscle

is dissected from corpus spongiosum and 1 cm

staggered ellipses of tissue are incised/excised

from spongiosal/corporal bodies, and the defects

anastomosed together

Corporo saphenous vein or superficial/deep dorsal vein shunts

Grayhack shunt

 

The saphenous vein is ligated and anastomosed

with corpora cavernosa

Barry shunt

 

The superficial or deep dorsal vein is ligated and

anastomosed to the corpora cavernosa