PRIAPISM

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Priapism - long-term (from several hours to several days), painful erection unrelated to sexual arousal and does not disappear after intercourse. Priapism can occur in patients with inflammatory diseases of the genital organs, leukemia, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord tumors and other lesions of it. The patient should be urgently hospitalized. Treatment is aimed at restoring blood flow to the cavernous bodies of the penis. Assign sedatives used cool baths, topically novocaine blockade and medical leeches, different types of anesthesia up to general anesthesia. With the ineffectiveness of conservative therapy surgical intervention is shown - the imposition of vascular anastomoses with the cavernous bodies. Priapism often leads to permanent impotence.