Thinking About Pathomechanisms and Current Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction-"The Stanley Beamish Problem." Review, Recommendations, and Proposals.

Introduction: Up to 50% of all men over 50 years of age suffer from erectile dysfunction. Since the late 1990s erectile dysfunction has been treated mostly with phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitors (PDE5I). Over the past 20 years, numerous scientific findings on the development of erectile dysfunction have been collected, which have so far received little attention in the treatment of erectile dysfunction.