How Surgery Can Help Erectile Dysfunction
Treating Erectile Dysfunction is always a challenging task for the doctors, not because of the complex nature of the disease but because of several psychological factors associated with it. Man’s hesitations and reluctance to accept the disease proves to be troublesome at times and it gradually starts affecting other spheres of our lives. There are several treatment methods available for curing ED effectively, and Vascular Reconstructive Surgery (VRS) is one of these.
Vascular Reconstructive Surgery is essentially performed to improve blood supply into penis and thereby help in dealing with the issues related with penile erection. As its name suggests, the therapy involve treating the penile vessels through surgery and it prove its functioning for attaining and maintaining erection. However, the curing procedure is rarely performed due to its highly technical and costly nature.
Meaning of Vascular Reconstructive Surgery
VRS entails replacing the damaged penile artery by a functioning artery from the abdominal region through surgery. This will facilitate in enhanced blood inflow into the penis and thereby work as an effective penile erection stimulator. Artery from the abdominal region is extended to the penile tract and connected to the blocked artery of the penis, facilitating voluminous blood inflow into it. The surgery performed is of high technical meaning and involve some deep cuts and marks over the body.
Scope of the therapy
The surgical procedure is not recommended for aged men, as it requires great tolerance levels. Only a small percentage of men, especially youth, can come under the scope of this treatment procedure. The procedure involves marking deep cuts and rigorous surgery for placing the artery into penile tract. Further, the surgery proves to be a costly affair for most of the ED sufferers, and should only be carried out on the recommendation of a qualified doctor. Various precautionary measures are needed to be taken before undergoing the surgery. Above all, the patient must be prepared well to tolerate the surgical complexity.
Results of the Vascular Reconstructive Therapy
After pooling so much money and efforts into the treatment, its long term outcomes are still beyond satisfactory levels. The treatment is good to offer temporary cure to the disease and it also shows side effects. The technicality of the treatment also adds to the agonies of the disease, as even a trivial error in placing the artery can entirely overturn the results. Various studies have shown that only 1 in 20 men get the proper cure from reconstructive therapy.
Evidently, the treatment procedure is not seem to be very effective in treating ED. This includes pains at all levels including physical, financial, and psychological. The surgery part is a technical one and requires great strengths for bearing the physical nuisances. However, it is prove to be effective in providing treatment against the ED caused due to pelvic injuries or any sort of damaged blood vessel.