title: [Management of priapism in patients with sickle-cell anaemia].
abstract: Sickle-cell anaemia is an autosomal recessive hereditary haemoglobinopathy. Patients with sickle-cell anaemia present a high risk of priapism. At least 40% of sickle-cell patients report episodes of priapism. Priapism in patients with sickle-cell tend to start during childhood and rapidly threaten the erectile prognosis. Apart from specific treatment of sickle-cell anaemia, the urologist must be able to recognize forms of intermittent priapism and promote medical prevention. The urologist must also be able to distinguish low-flow priapism from the rarer high-flow priapism, as the treatments differ. Treatment strategies are increasingly well defined, with an increasingly limited place for surgery.
authors.affiliation: Service d'Urologie, Hôpital Tenon, Paris, France. mroupret@club-internet.fr
authors.forename: Morgan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Roupret
authors.forename: Sébastien
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Beley
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Traxer
authors.forename: Frédérique
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kirsch-Noir
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jouannet
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jardin
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Thiounn
mesh_terms: D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000150:complications*; D003663:Decision Trees; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010410:Penile Erection / Q000502:physiology; D011317:Priapism / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D011379:Prognosis