Rare: The boy had an erection for 10 days after the fall

On the morning of June 7, People’s Hospital 115 in Ho Chi Minh City confirmed with the newspaper Ho Chi Minh City Law, The hospital treated a rather rare case: The penis was erect for 10 days.

Before that, the hospital received Mr. TVV (57 years old) in a state of penis erection.

Mr. V. said that after he fell on the perineum (the area between the anus and the scrotum) on a hardwood tree, the tip of the penis bled a little. He still had normal sex, there was no blood in his semen.

However, after ejaculation, the penis stays erect. Mr. V. only felt slight pain in the penis, besides that there were no other symptoms. He has been examined and treated at a number of local medical facilities but the condition is still the same.

At 115 People’s Hospital, through clinical examination and imaging, the doctor discovered that he had ruptured cavernous blood vessels on both sides and this broken branch of blood vessels poured into the cavernous sinus, causing a pulled penile erection. long. This condition is quite rare, accounting for less than 5% of cases of prolonged penile erection.

The patient was intervened by doctors to block one of the vascular branches of the cavernous body, which was torn, the penis returned to normal and the patient was discharged after 24 hours.

Share on Youth, According to the doctors of People’s Hospital 115, a prolonged penile erection is a condition in which the penis has a prolonged erection (over 4 hours) that is not related to sexual arousal. There are two types of penile erection: low flow priapism and high flow priapism.

The type of low blood flow is caused by sickle cell disease, hemophilia, thrombocytopenia, drug use (depression, antipsychotics…), infiltration (lymphoma, bladder cancer, etc.) optics…), damage to the central nervous system, spinal cord. The best treatment is in the 4 hours before if due to drug-induced erection.

This type of high blood flow is most often caused by trauma. The best treatment is medical, if not effective can intervene endovascular treatment (selective embolism). However, the rate of erectile dysfunction occurring after treatment accounts for 15-22%.

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According to Vietnamnet