Penile venous ligation for erecticle dysfunction

Abstract EN

Penile venous ligation (PVL) is one of the reatments of erecticle insufficiency.

In this review, 16 patients with erecticle dysfunction due to corporeal venous occlusive dysfunction were treated by PVL.

patients’ age ranged from 27 to 48 years (mean 37) and the duration of their impotency was between 24 to 96 months (mean 60).

Follow-up ranged from 13 to 60 months (mean 36.5).

11 patients (68.7%) recovered completely and had erections to permit unaided coitus.

In 5 patients, recovery was temporary for less than one year (one year patient 8 months and others less than 6 months) one of them had sufficient erections and coitus with intracavernosal injection at 20gm papaverine postoperatively.

Viewing this data, it seems that minimum follow-up period should be longer than one year and that PVL is an acceptable method for erecticle dysfunction due to venous leakage.