Correlation between intracavernous papaverine injection and Doppler analysis in impotent men.
One hundred impotent men were evaluated with Doppler pulse-wave analysis and intracavernous papaverine. Fifty-four men with normal Doppler study response had abnormal responses to papaverine. A normal Doppler study response failed to predict the inability of papaverine to induce an erection in 54 per cent of cases. Twenty-seven patients had abnormal Doppler study responses, and only 2 of these men had a normal response to papaverine. An abnormal Doppler study response was highly predictive of a vascular abnormality.
D007172:Erectile Dysfunction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010208:Papaverine; D010410:Penile Erection / Q000187:drug effects*; D010413:Penis / Q000098:blood supply; D012039:Regional Blood Flow; D012212:Rheology; D012307:Risk Factors
D010208:Papaverine