Wed,21 December 2011
More than 80% of prostate cancer patients develop erectile dysfunction, no matter whether they have surgery or external radiation therapy, as maintained by a recent study published in the Journal of Urology. Erectile dysfunction that also called impotence is the powerlessness to attain or maintain an erection enough for sexual intercourse. It just refers to erection function. Men with the dysfunction have normal sensation and sex drive and are able to get orgasm.
Prostate cancer is not a cause of erectile dysfunction; but, treatments for the disease could cause erectile dysfunction. And
Mon,31 October 2011
Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University have found that a pre-emptive multimodal pain regimen that included pregabalin (Lyrica) decreased the use of opioid analgesics in patients undergoing robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy.
Opioid usage, which involves narcotic pain medications, was significantly less in patients who received the multimodal regimen compared to patients who received a standard postoperative analgesic regimen. The mean opioid dose, which was measured in "total morphine equivalent dose," was 75.3 mg for patients who received the standard regimen, vers |
