[Erectile dysfunction of arterial origin as possible primary manifestation of atherosclerosis].
The incidence of risk factors atherosclerosis and of vasculogenic importance in a group of patients with erectile failure is presented. As a single risk factor only arterial hypertension is associated significantly with arteriogenic importance. Myocardial ischemia and peripheric arteriopathy are also often associated with arteriogenic impotence. In a high percentage vasculogenic impotence can be the first sign of a generalized arteriopathy. The diagnosis of arteriogenic impotence can therefore have implications which are not only related to erectile failure.
Lochmann
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Servizio di Urologia, Ospedale di Bressanone, Bolzano.
Gallmetzer
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000150:complications*; D007172:Erectile Dysfunction / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D018783:Impotence, Vasculogenic / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D015994:Incidence; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors