Description

Priapism is a painful erection and settled and not associated with arousal or satisfaction seksual.Penyebab Priapism can occur in all age groups, including newborn babies. Priapism in children are usually found in patients with leukemia. White blood cells that obstruct or impede the flow of blood from the penis resulting Priapism.

Children who suffer from sickle cell disease may also experience Priapism.

Other causes of Priapism in children is trauma, either on the penis itself or on the area below the penis (perineum) and spinal cord injury. In adult men, the cause Priapism can be known can not. One possible cause is the sickle cell disease.

But the most frequent causes of Priapism in adults is an injectable drugs such as drug psychosis (torazin, klorpromazin), anti-hypertensive drugs (prazosin), marijuana, a drug used to treat impotence, anticoagulants, cocaine, corticosteroids, tolbutamide, trazodon .

Symptom

The symptoms of this disease be accompanied by painful erections that occur without sexual stimulation and lasts for four hours or more.

Treatment

Treatment tailored to the cause. If the cause is drugs, the drug was stopped immediately. If the cause is nerve damage, a drug given through the spinal cord. If the cause is a blood clot, surgery to remove a blood clot, or to make a bypass so that the circulation of the penis back to normal.