Seventy percent of men with erectile dysfunction have some form of atherosclerosis — arterial blockage — that may prevent blood from flowing to the penis. This is why surgeons are now looking to stent procedures as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, according to cardiologist Mehdi Shishehbor, MD, of Cleveland Clinic.
In the Cleveland Clinic program, if a doctor suspects an arterial blockage is preventing a man from having erections, the first step is to order an angiogram of the pelvis to identify the blockage, then insert a stent into the affected artery. The stented arteries are in the pelvis, not in the penis itself, and the procedure takes about an hour. Some patients are able to have sex the next day. Read more
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