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. 1992;24(4):389-92.
doi: 10.1007/BF02550631.

The usefulness of ethylephrine (Efortil-R) in the treatment of priapism and intraoperative penile erections

R G Serrate  1 , J Prats, R Regué, G Rius
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The usefulness of ethylephrine (Efortil-R) in the treatment of priapism and intraoperative penile erections

R G Serrate et al. Int Urol Nephrol. 1992.

Abstract

We present our experience in the treatment of 8 patients with priapism after intravenous injection of vasoactive drugs, and of 15 patients with persistent erections in the course of transurethral cystoscopy surgery. All of them were treated with intracavernous injection of 10 mg ethylephrine (1 ml Efortil-R). The results were satisfactory in all cases. In one patient we had to draw 75 ml blood and give another 10 mg dose of ethylephrine. We have not observed secondary effects of drug administration except two local haematomas with spontaneous resolution. We consider that this treatment is very useful in the management of patients with persistent erections or priapism because of the excellent results obtained without adverse effects.

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