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Penile prosthesis, mechanical method for recovering erections

Penile prosthesis, mechanical method for recovering erections

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Created by: Top Doctors editorial
Edited by: TOP DOCTORS® at 18/03/2019

The penile prosthesis is a treatment used to restore erections, 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 get an erection.

Luis Antonio Reyes Vallejo

penile function The penile prosthesis is a mechanical method for recovering erections. Often, despite medical treatment, he does not recover the erection and when the corpora cavernosa are replaced by a pair of plastic cylinders to be inflated with water, then will recover erection in a way it 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 corpora cavernosa are replaced by a pair of plastic cylinders to be inflated with water. Patients who previously had surgery for prostate cancer and fail erections after such a procedure, or have been subjected to various treatments for erectile dysfunction without success may be candidates for placement of a penile prosthesis.

Process

The placement of a penile prosthesis requires adequate prior training, will have an estimated procedure about 1 hour and a half or two hours time, it all depends on each case and the type of prosthesis. It is important that when the patient is with the doctor Discuss what type of prosthesis is a candidate and, above all, if your doctor has prior training for the placement of this type of mechanical methods to help restore erections.

Indications after placement of the prosthesis

Once placed penile prosthesis no special diet is required, they are usually asks patients about 4 to 5 weeks did not inflate the mechanical device, as this will help much more healing (the not hold the device during this time), after the sixth week the patient can use the device and gradually will be recovering your sex life.

Urology