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KMID : 0358319930340020359
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Korean Journal of Urology
1993 Volume.34 No. 2 p.359 ~ p.364
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Early Experience with Penile Prostheses in Spinal Cord Injury Patients
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Abstract
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Recently the use of penile prostheses in cord injury population has been beneficial for sexual dysfunction, maintenance of external devices and the treatment of penile skin lacerations. We have implanted penile prostheses in 38 spinal cord injury
patients in the last 2 years. The patients were between 25 and 64 years old(average 40.6 years old). Followup ranged from 4 months to 2 years(average 14.9 months). All the patients received penile prostheses to treat erectile impotence. We used
malleable penile prostheses in 13, Hydroflexes in 5 and Dynaflexes in 20 patients. Rod sizes and diameters ranged from 12 to 18×from 0.9 to 1.15 cm for the malleable type and from 14 to 18×1.1cm for the Hydroflex and Dynaflex. Complications
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loss of prostheses occurred in 4 cases(10.5%). One pumping failure and one prosthetic infection were developed in Dynaflex and Hydroflex, while one spontaneous intraurethral protrusion and one glandular erosion in malleable types. In the former 2
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they were successfully exchanged to Dynaflexes and in the latter 2 cases they were removed. As a whole surgical success rate was 92.1% and sexual satisfaction rate was 78.9. In conclusion, the penile prosthesis implantation is considered as a
useful
treatment method for erectile impotence I spinal cord injury patients.
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