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Health Encyclopedia: Physical Causes Of Erectile Dysfunction Impotence Causes

Physical Causes

A number of conditions share a common problem with erectile dysfunction--the impaired ability of blood vessels to open and allow normal blood flow. Such conditions include diabetes, hypertension, coronary artery disease, kidney failure, peripheral artery disease, and stroke. Increasingly, researchers are studying the role of nitric oxide, which plays a major role in keeping blood vessels open, in all of these disorders.

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Expert & Community Posts

Bleeding from the Penis: What Can Cause It?

By Jay Motola , Health Expert

Dear Dr. Motola, I underwent brachytherapy and HDR treatments for advanced prostate cancer 16... Read more »

Brachytherapy and Erectile Dysfunction

By Dr. Justin Harmon , Health Expert

...radiation therapy that can be administered. Brachytherapy is the administration of... Read more »

Do I Need My Entire Prostate Treated?

By Marc Greenstein , Health Expert

...are the options for this man? They include surgery, brachytherapy (seed implant), external beam... Read more »

Rethinking the Wait-and-See Approach to Prostate Cancer

By Marc Greenstein , Health Expert

...it has not spread). These include radical surgery, brachytherapy, external radiation,... Read more »

Seed Implantation Revisited

By Christopher Lukas , Health Expert

... In ten days, he’ll get his seed implantation (brachytherapy); he’s been having some anxiety... Read more »

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Health Guide

Radiation Treatments for Prostate Cancer

Radiation TreatmentsThe two major radiation treatments are:External-beam radiationBrachytherapyBoth treatments have generally equal success rates. Research presented at the 2006 Prostate Cancer... Read more »

Coronary Artery Disease: References

...Teirstein P, Satler L, Sketch M, O'Malley J, Popma JJ, et al. Sirolimus-eluting stents vs vascular brachytherapy for in-stent restenosis within bare-metal stents: the SISR randomized trial. JAMA.... Read more »

Coronary Artery Disease: Angioplasty and Stents

...are more likely to experience re-narrowing of the heart arteries than other patients.Coronary Artery Brachytherapy. Radiation treatment called coronary artery brachytherapy (Gamma One, Beta-Cath)... Read more »

Breast Cancer Radiation Treatment

...boost of radiation therapy in patients with lumpectomies appears to reduce the risk for recurrence.Brachytherapy. Less commonly, radiation is delivered in implants (called brachytherapy). Implants... Read more »

Colon and Rectal Cancers: Radiation Treatment

...plastic tubes inserted into the intestine.By implanting tiny radiation seeds directly into the tumor (brachytherapy).Computer imaging techniques providing 3-dimensional pictures of the cancerous... Read more »

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