title: Evaluation of impotence. Monitoring periodic penile erections during sleep.
abstract: The monitoring of periodic penile erections during sleep has helped alter the understanding and treatment of impotent patients. The reasons why this has occurred, the procedures used in monitoring sleep erections, and the validation of the procedures are reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Ware
mesh_terms: D007172:Erectile Dysfunction / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D010410:Penile Erection; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*