Intracavernous Pharmacotherapy

Impotence" is an indiscriminate term used by the lay public and the general medical community to describe a variety of problems with male sexual function: libido, penile erection, ejaculation, or orgasm.The Latin derivations are more succint: impotentiu erigendi means the inability to have penile erec- tion, impotentiu coeundi refers to the inability of the male to complete the sexual act, and impotentiu generundi means the inability to reproduce.The first National Institute of Health Consensus Conference on Impotence was held in December of 1992.29, 48The participating panelists and speakers were urologists, endocrinologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, geriatricians, and epidemiologists.They recommended the adoption of a more precise term, erectile dysfunction, to signify the inability to achieve or maintain erection of sufficient rigidity and duration to permit satisfactory sexual performance.The consensus statement acknowledged the likelihood of erectile dysfunction increasing with age, but admonished that this progression is not inevitable; erectile dysfunction is influenced more by the concurrence and worsening of medical