A comprehensive history of injection therapy for erectile dysfunction, 1982-2023.

Introduction: Although oral phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitors represent a first choice and long-term option for about half of all patients with erectile dysfunction (ED), self-injection therapy with vasoactive drugs remains a viable alternative for all those who are not reacting or cannot tolerate oral drug therapy. This current injection therapy has an interesting history beginning in 1982.

Objectives: To provide a comprehensive history of self-injection therapy from the very beginnings in 1982 by contemporary witnesses and some members of the International Society for Sexual Medicine's History Committee, a complete history of injection therapy is prepared from eyewitness accounts and review of the published literature on the subject, as well as an update of the current status of self-injection therapy.

Value of prolonged scrotal drainage after penile prosthesis implantation: a multicenter prospective nonrandomized pilot study.

We aimed to understand the risks and benefits of post-inflatable penile prosthesis (IPP) implantation drainage and optimal duration. Our patients were divided into 3 groups: Group 1 (n = 114) had no drain placed, Group 2 had a drain placed for 24 h (n = 114) and Group 3 had a drain placed for 72 h (n = 117). Postoperative scrotal hematoma and prosthesis infection rates were compared between the groups.

Review of the Current Status of Low Intensity Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (Li-ESWT) in Erectile Dysfunction (ED), Peyronie's Disease (PD), and Sexual Rehabilitation After Radical Prostatectomy With Special Focus on Technical Aspects of the Different Marketed ESWT Devices Including Personal Experiences in 350 Patients.

Introduction: Although the literature of the positive effects of penile low intensity extracorporeal shockwave therapy is meanwhile substantial, there are substantial differences regarding both the sources of energies and extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) devices.

Objectives: To provide an overview on the energy range and energy differences of the 6 currently marketed ESWT devices along with personal ESWT experiences in 350 patients.

Methods: This review includes all published preclinical and clinical penile ESWT studies with evaluation of the technical differences of the 6 ESWT devices and the personal experiences with these 6 devices in ED and PD.

[Reflexions on 50 Years of Sexual Medicine in Urology Focusing on Male Sexual Dysfunctions].

Diagnosis and therapy of male sexual dysfunctions made enormous progress over the last 50 years. Starting with the development of hydraulic penile implants in 1973 meanwhile several effective and well-tolerated conservative treatments such as the PDE-5 inhibitors avanafil, sildenafil, tadalafil and vardenafil, transurethral PGE1 (MUSE) and self-injection therapy with a variety of vasoactive drugs like alprostadil, papaverine/phentolamine (bimix), PGE1/papaverine/phentolamine (trimix/triple drug) or VIP (aviptadil)/phentolamine-Invicorp) have been developed for the treatment of ED. More recently Li-ESWT has provided impressive results both in PDE-5i responders and non-responders and partly also in Peyronie's disease.