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Penile prosthesis to combat erectile dysfunction

Penile prosthesis to combat erectile dysfunction

Edited by: TOP DOCTORS® at 10/10/2023

The penile prosthesis is a treatment used to recover erections, it is commonly used in patients who have undergone several treatments for erectile dysfunction without success or who had surgery for prostate cancer and fail to achieve an erection.

Luis Antonio Reyes Vallejo

Penis function Penile prosthesis is a mechanical method to recover erections. Many times, despite the medical treatments, it is not possible to recover the erection and it is when the corpora cavernosa are replaced by a pair of plastic cylinders that are going to be inflated with water, then it is going to recover the erection in a way As natural as possible through a mechanical method.

Candidates for a penile prosthesis

Despite being a mechanical method, penile prostheses give a very natural erection. The cavernous bodies are replaced by a pair of plastic cylinders that are to be inflated with water. Patients who have previously had surgery for prostate cancer and do not achieve erections after such procedure, or who have undergone various treatments for erectile dysfunction without success may be candidates for placement of a penile prosthesis .

Procedure for placing the prosthesis

The placement of a penile prosthesis requires adequate pre-training, will have an estimated procedure time of approximately 1 hour and a half or 2 hours, everything depends on each case and the type of prosthesis. It is important that when the patient is with the doctor it is discussed what type of prosthesis he is a candidate and, above all, if his doctor has a previous training for the placement of this type of mechanical methods to help recover the erections.

Indications after placement of the prosthesis

Once the penile prosthesis is placed , no special dietary requirements are required, patients are usually asked about 4 to 5 weeks to not inflate the mechanical device, as this will help much more healing (not taking up the device during This lapse), after the sixth week the patient can use the device and little by little will recover their sexual life.

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