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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday. April 27, 1988
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Penile drug injections may aid impotent men
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — About 20 million U.S. men are suffering from impotence, and almost all the problems are the result of some physical problem that can be corrected or improved, a researcher said yesterday.
Dr. Irwin Goldstein, associate professor of urology at the Boston University School of Medicine, said the most frequent cause of impotence, or erectile insufficiency, is the result of some blood circulation problem that does not allow patients to acquire or retain an erection.
In almost no cases, he said, is the problem psychological, a concept that has long been a popular belief.
problem psychological, a concept that has long been a popular belief? "Whether there is a Freudian suspicious thing that can cause pennile insufficiency, I really doubt that," Goldstein said at a National Kidney Center in Philadelphia. Part, psychological factors are usually secondary to other (physical)
problems."
An erection, Goldstein said, is essentially a function of hydraulics. Following appropriate inspiration, a neurotransmitter substance is secreted to start the sequence. Next, blood flowing into the penis is prevented by muscle action from flowing back out. Structures called the leucar space then fill and force enlargement of the organ.
The process can be blocked by three general mechanisms: a failure to initiate caused by impaired release of the neurotransmitter substances; a failure to fill, caused by impaired blood flow into the organ; and a failure to store, caused by an impairment that does not allow the blood to lecunar space and force enlargement.
Goldstein said injection of a medication that triggers muscle action to prevent blood from flowing out of the penis has been successful in overcoming impotence in 350 patients at his clinic.
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