Can a Penis Be Repaired to Hold Blood Again

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Arab J Urol. 2013 Sep; 11(3): 254–266.

Penile vascular surgery for treating erectile dysfunction: Current role and future direction

Eugen Molodysky

^aDiscipline of General Do, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Australia

Shi-Ping Liu

^bSection of Urology, National Taiwan University Infirmary, College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Sheng-Jean Huang

^cNational Taiwan University Infirmary, Jin-Shan Branch, New Taipei, Taiwan

Geng-Long Hsu

^bDepartment of Urology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Higher of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

^cNational Taiwan University Hospital, Jin-Shan Co-operative, New Taipei, Taiwan

^dMicrosurgical Authority Reconstruction and Research Center, Hsu's Andrology, Taipei, Taiwan

Received 2013 Mar xxx; Revised 2013 May 5; Accepted 2013 May five.

Abstract

Penile vascular surgery for treating erectile dysfunction (ED) is still regarded charily. Thus we reviewed relevant publications from the terminal decade, summarising evidence-based reports consistent with the pessimistic consensus and, past contrast, the optimistically viable options for vascular reconstruction for ED published after 2003. Recent studies support a revised model of the tunica albuginea of the corpora cavernosa every bit a bi-layered structure with a 360° complete inner circular layer and a 300° incomplete outer longitudinal coat. Additional studies show a more sophisticated venous drainage system than previously understood, and most significantly, that the emissary veins can exist easily occluded past the shearing action elicited by the inner and outer layers of the tunica albuginea. Pascal's law has been shown to be a significant, if not the major, factor in erectile mechanics, with recent haemodynamic studies on fresh and defrosted human cadavers showing rigid erections despite the lack of endothelial activity. Reports on revascularisation surgery support its utility in treating arterial trauma in young males, and with localised arterial occlusive disease in the older human. Penile venous stripping surgery has been shown to be beneficial in correcting veno-occlusive dysfunction, with outstanding results. The traditional complications of irreversible penile numbness and deformity take been about eliminated, with the venous ligation technique superseding venous cautery. Penile vascular reconstructive surgery is feasible if, and only if, the surgical handling is appropriate using a sound method. It should be a promising option in the near future.

Abbreviations: CC, corpora cavernosa; ED, erectile dysfunction; DDV, deep dorsal vein; CV, cavernous vein; PAV, para-arterial vein; ERV, erection-related vein; VOD, veno-occlusive dysfunction; PRS, penile revascularisation surgery; IEGA, junior epigastric avenue; PCL, penile crural ligation; DPVL, dorsal penile vein ligation; PVS, penile venous stripping

Keywords: Penile arterial insufficiency, Arterial reconstruction, Veno-occlusive dysfunction, Venous stripping, Erectile dysfunction

Introduction

The human penis has been in its current anatomical class for the last 2000 centuries [1] and despite extensive studies, it is likely that its anatomy and the erection process are still non thoroughly understood [2]. Humans are peculiar within the group of erect animals, in that the males possess an os counterpart associated with a proportionally big and extraordinarily extensible corpora cavernosa (CC), but man does non take an os penis, which is present in all quadrupeds [three], i.east. the bony portion that provides penile rigidity. The erectile capability of the human penis largely depends on sinusoids in the glans penis, the corpus spongiosum and the CC, which are also exclusively responsible for erectile rigidity [iv]. Therefore it seems that the human CC are destined to exist decumbent to erectile dysfunction (ED), divers as inability either to achieve or maintain a rigid erection for satisfactory intercourse [v].

A new understanding of penile beefcake and the erection process

Recent studies substantiate a model of the tunica albuginea of the CC as a bi-layered structure with a 360° complete inner circular layer and a 300° incomplete outer longitudinal glaze spanning from the bulbospongiosus and ischiocavernosus proximally, and extending continuously into the distal ligament within the glans penis [6]. The entire outer layer of the penis and the above 2 muscles could be collectively categorised equally skeletal components. The inner layer contains and supports the intracavernous sinusoids, the erection-related veins and artery which could collectively be allocated as the polish muscle components [7].

A rigid erection of the CC is initiated by either central or local sexual stimuli, if there are healthy CC in which a unique dual circulatory route is characteristic [8]. Apart from the regular vascular system for nutrition via the capillaries, there is a system for erectile part in which sinusoids shunt straight from arterial to venous channels bypassing the capillaries. In the human penis, the vascular distribution is of a particular design (Fig. i). The main source of claret supply to the penis is from the internal pudendal avenue, which is the end co-operative of the internal iliac artery, although accessory contributions might arise from the external iliac, obturator, vesical and femoral arteries. The internal pudendal artery becomes the common penile avenue afterward giving off a branch in the perineum.

A schematic illustration showing the vascular system in the human penis. (A) Upper lateral view. The DDV is consistently in the median position, receives the blood of the emissary veins from the CC and of the circumflex vein from the corpus spongiosum. It is sandwiched by CVs, although these prevarication in a deeper position. Bilaterally each dorsal artery is sandwiched by its corresponding medial and lateral PAVs, respectively. Note that the lateral PAV merges with the medial i proximally. The deeper colour of the veins indicates the deepest group of the vasculature. The internal pudendal avenue gives a co-operative to bulbourethral artery and then the clangorous artery, which is the major supplier of the CC as well as the dorsal artery supplying the glans penis. (B) A cross-department of the mid-portion. Note that in that location are seven veins rather than the traditionally reported one, although information technology becomes four at the level of penile hilum because a merger in each pair of the nomenclature veins. The ERVs are arrayed in an imaginary arc on the dorsal aspect of the tunica albuginea. The penile avenue does not always back-trail fellow veins.

The sinusoids of the CC are primarily supplied by the cavernous artery, which is the second concluding branch of the internal pudendal artery. The internal pudendal artery also gives rise to the bulbourethral branches proximally, and distally the dorsal artery, which supplies the glans and the CC.

The sinusoidal claret drains directly to the subtunical venous plexus, subsequently passing through the tunica albuginea to the emissary veins, and then to the deep dorsal veins (DDVs), cavernous veins (CVs) and para-arterial veins (PAVs). DDVs, CVs and PAVs are collectively termed erection-related veins (ERVs) because they drain the sinusoidal claret separately [9]. This new understanding of penile venous anatomy is highly significant. Not only is the traditional DDV considered significant, only also the CV (which distributes through the unabridged penile length) and the PAVs. The DDV that lies consistently in the median position receives blood from the circumflex veins of the corpus spongiosum and from the emissary veins of the CC. Emissary veins (Fig. 2) lie between the inner and outer layers of the tunica for a curt distance, frequently piercing the outer layer bundles obliquely. Therefore, and significantly, these emissary veins can exist easily occluded by the shearing activity caused by the inner round and outer longitudinal layers of the tunica albuginea.

An illustration showing the penile erection process. The lower panel shows a cross section of the human CC. In the upper panel, from left to right, the sinusoids of the CC expand gradually when the helicine artery dilates to increase the blood flow, every bit the outer longitudinal layer of the tunica albuginea limits and somewhen seals off the emissary vein, resulting in penile erection.

The DDV is sandwiched by cavernosal veins that are coalesced to one at the penile base of operations. Bilaterally each dorsal artery is sandwiched past the medial and lateral PAV, respectively. Veins from the glans penis form a retrocoronal plexus that drains predominantly into the DDV, the urethral veins and the corpus spongiosum. The DDV courses proximally along the midline above the CC and empties into the periprostatic plexus [x]. The superficial dorsal vein drains the peel and the subcutaneous tissue superficial to Buck's fascia, and might have direct shunts to the CC. This in turn drains into the superficial external pudendal vein. If, and merely if, the erectile part of the CC is healthy, the penis not only expands in its girth, simply besides increases in length, resulting in sufficient rigidity with sexual arousal.

Two types of branches ascend from the cavernous artery. Beginning, the outer capillaries that are responsible for penile diet during the flaccid land, and supply the smooth muscle and nerve fibres. This system signifies that the CC is too susceptible to long-hours in the erectile state. Second, and for fulfilling erection function, the inner helicine arteries [11] open up directly into cavernous spaces without entering capillaries (Fig. ii), which are then emptied into the mail-clangorous venules. These inner arteries are shaped-similar corkscrews and allow the penis to elongate and dilate without compromising menstruum. Multiple layers of smoothen muscle surroundings the helicine branches. This muscle is contracted while flaccid, assuasive merely small amounts of blood into the lacunar spaces. Afterwards the advisable stimulus, musculus relaxation occurs and the arteries amplify and straighten, increasing claret flow and dilating the lacunar spaces, in turn, applying pressure against the outer longitudinal layer of the tunica albuginea to reduce the blood drainage, which eventually results in a rigid erection. Awarding of real world physics would assume that the CC is an ideal vessel to employ Pascal's Law which states that pressure practical to any office of an enclosed fluid at rest is transmitted undiminished to all walls of the containing vessel [12].

The pathophysiology of ED

What leads to an adequate erection is probably still not completely explored, with the current consensus remaining multifaceted and complex [thirteen]. In that location must be liberty from psychological disturbance, an intact neurological system, a normal hormonal profile, no adverse drug influence, no systemic diseases, a functional artery and healthy intracavernous tissues [14]. End-organ part requires arterial sufficiency, normal sinusoidal tissue and functional veins. Although there is no understanding on what would exist the major correspondent, there is a bias towards endothelial office, because of the dramatic effects of phosphodiesterase-5-inhibitors on ED.

However, contrary to this are recent haemodynamic studies on fresh and defrosted human cadavers, whereby rigid erections were unexceptionally reproduced despite the lack of endothelial activity [15]. Abiding depression-pressure perfusion was used to mimic arterial inflow, and the staged removal of ERVs produced increasingly more than rigid erections. Could it be that ERVs might in fact exist the predominant cistron that underlies erectile rigidity? Certainly, and in the light of the increased agreement of the penile vasculature, it would at to the lowest degree warrant a re-evaluation of the role of venous surgery for ED [16].

Briefly, the CC and skeletal muscle components unite with smooth muscle components to run into the requirements for erection, and only permit vascular and nervous tissue to communicate with the systemic circulation. Their anatomical relationship is apparently like a cluster of grapes, when the emissary vein is regarded as the grape torso and each sinusoid equally a fruit (Fig. 3). The rigid erection of the CC overall depends on cooperation amid healthy sinusoids, a normal tunica, functional arteries, and competent veins. Thereafter, vascular dysfunction is an important cause of male person ED, and can be classified as veno-occlusive dysfunction (VOD), arterial insufficiency, or mixed. Accordingly, the best resort might be penile venous surgery, arterial reconstruction and venous/arterial reconstruction, respectively.

An analogy of the relationship betwixt the CC sinusoids and emissary vein. Left: A cross department of the homo CC. Right: An amplified view of an emissary vein and its supplying sinusoids. Their anatomical relation is like a cluster of grapes, when the emissary vein is regarded as the grape trunk and each sinusoid as a fruit.

A review of arterial revascularisation/veno-arterialisation techniques for restoring erectile role

Arterial vasculogenic causes of ED increment with age and are most prevalent in those with adventure factors for atherosclerosis (obesity, smoking, hypertension, diabetes and hyperlipidaemia). Traumatic events, which occur more oftentimes in younger men, are due to pelvic and/or perineal trauma. Arterial insufficiency can exist detected using colour Doppler ultrasonography, if the superlative systolic velocity is less than 25 cm/s. Angiography, whilst beingness the benchmark for all arterial investigations, is reserved with the aim of concurrent embolisation or angioplasty if an arteriovenous fistula or stenosis is suspected.

Penile revascularisation surgery (PRS)

In 1973, Michal et al. [17] reported the first report of penile arterial reconstruction in an attempt to enhance arterial flow to the CC. They devised PRS using the anastomosis of the inferior epigastric artery (IEGA) to the CC. After, DDV arterialisations, either with no extensive venous ligation or with venous ligation, were introduced by Virag [eighteen] and Haudi [19] in 1981 and 1986, respectively. In an endeavor to deliver better outcomes, various modifications were used, such as the Furlow–Fisher process (Fig. 4), in which IEGA was made in an end-to-side anastomosis to the DDV, while several ligations were fabricated at the lateral circumflex veins, in proximal and distal locations [xx]. The outcomes of arterial PRS are varied due to many causes, e.g., patient selection, surgical instruments and surgical technique. In full general, its merit is limited, with no long-term benefits (Tabular array 1). Meaning complications appear to be unavoidable, i.east., the hazard of postoperative penile shortening and decreased penile sensation. Not surprisingly, it has been regarded as experimental among most surgeons [21].

An illustration of the Furlow–Fisher procedure. The inferior vein is fashioned to the DDV, which is ligated distally, proximally and at lateral locations of the circumflex veins.

Table 1

The outcomes from PRS (adapted from [26]).

Study/year	No. of patients	Procedure	Follow-up (months)	Intercourse success rate (%)
one/1996	11	DDVAA	50	92
2/1997	24	Hauri	Northward/A	77
		Furlow-Fisher
three/1998	62	Virag Hauri	41	54
4/1998	42	DDVA	N/A	57
5/2000	18	Dorsal artery	32	94
		Hauri
		Furlow-Fisher
6/1997	114	Dorsal avenue DDVA	17	63
vii/2001	38	DDVA	61	North/A
8/2002	61	N/A	60	Northward/A
9/2004 [27]	51	Hauri	36–lx	85.9
		Furlow-Fisher

In 1996, a loftier point was reached when the AUA guidelines [22] considered PRS and penile venous surgery in men with atherosclerotic affliction every bit investigational, and recommended that information technology should be used merely in a research setting with a long-term follow-up available. The proceedings of the First Paris International Consultation on Erectile Dysfunction in 1999 [23], the second in 2003 [24] and the third in 2009, were in agreement with the AUA guidelines. Similarly, in 2005, the AUA Update on the Management of ED [25], and the International Order for Sexual Medicine textbook, Standard Practice in Sexual Medicine [26] maintained the consensus. Even so, it might deserve reappraisal later on a review of arterial reconstructions reported afterwards 2004 (Table 2) [27–32], Interestingly, researchers unexceptionally report positive long-term outcomes when both penile arterial and venous reconstruction are incorporated, suggesting that arterial reconstruction lone is insufficient for the long-term restoration of erectile function. For investigating the vascular contribution exclusively, haemodynamic studies take been used in both fresh and defrosted man male cadavers since 2001 [33]. In each example, a rigid erection was accessible at a very low infusion rate, after venous removal. This clearly has significant ramifications in relation to vascular reconstruction and its office in treating patients with ED. Overall successful revascularisations are prominent in immature patients who take sustained focal arterial injury due to trauma, and in older salubrious men with recently acquired ED secondary to a focal arterial occlusion, and in the absence of whatever evidence of generalised vascular disease [33].

Tabular array 2

Outcomes from PRS in contempo decades.

Reference	No. of patients /hateful age (years)	Procedure	Follow-up (months)	Intercourse success rate (%)
[27]	51	Hauri and Furlow	36–60	85.nine
[28]	52/28.5	N/A	70.8	48
[29]	43/59.vii	Furlow–Fisher	22.1	threescore.five
[32]∗
[xxx]	71/30.five		34.five
[31]	125/43.2	Furlow–Fisher	73.two	63.six−>92.8

Surgery for correcting VOD

In 1973, Parona [34] hypothesised that the penile dorsal vein might be dysfunctional equally a result of varicosity. In 1902, Wooten [35] made the commencement dorsal penile vein ligation (DPVL) for atonic impotence. Although Lowsley and Rueda [36] reported this procedure in more men in 1953, DPVL for restoring erectile function had non been popular until 1985 [37]. The arroyo was expanded from initial procedures involving single-vessel ligation of the DDV to more elaborate techniques in which excision of the DDV, CV, and the crural vein were described [38]. Information technology appears that the offending veins of VOD are merely a single DDV with tributaries, crural veins and CVs that just drain the penile hilum. Not surprisingly, DPVL has been nearly abandoned because the general consensus for this type of treatment for ED is a short-term success of one–2 years, with no sustainable long-term outcome [39]. In add-on to the lack of sustained functional improvement, irreversible deformity and permanent numbness of the penis after surgery were frequent, and considered to exist unacceptable complications [40]. Failure to achieve a long-term solution for ED and the seemingly unavoidable agin side-effects take discouraged many surgeons from using DPVL for patients with ED. However, irreversible numbness results from nerve damage, and penile deformity is a outcome of either fibro-skeletal alteration, or loss of extensibility and the sliding capability of layered tissues from electrocoagulation-induced fibrosis [41]. So should neither nervous nor gristly tissues be unaffected if DPVL is exclusively targeted to venous structures? Should the venous removal exist sufficient if all conventional penile venous anatomy has exclusively depicted a single DDV and tributary veins near the penile hilum only?

Positive reports of venous reconstruction are limited to penile crural ligation (PCL) [42], apart from those of Hsu et al., whose method has addressed penile venous stripping (PVS). Once more, authors seem to recommend PCL, which enhances penile venous impedance. In the long term, a collateral circulation will probably ensue, as the entire CC tin can be regarded as an enclosed chamber. Why will penile venous stripping not exist constructive if PCL works? Despite the review of all related publications over the last decade, PVS is notwithstanding regarded as experimental. The advances in the agreement of penile anatomy, in surgical instruments and surgical techniques take resulted in us using ambulatory PVS on >3000 men since 1986.

The chronological development of a refined method of penile venous stripping

After microsurgery training on rat and human cadaveric dissections of the unabridged penile construction in 1985, neither electrosurgery nor a suction apparatus has been used with our penile venous stripping techniques (Table ii). In 1986 we introduced DPVL in an initial report of viii men [43]. This simple procedure was replaced by venectomy soon thereafter, and and then by PVS, which was based on the conventional penile venous anatomy of a single DDV until 1999. The charge per unit of successful intercourse has improved from 50% to 91% in the past decade.

During 1999, 35 patients had repeat cavernosography considering of a gradual decrease in their erectile capability over a flow of 6 months to seven years subsequently surgery [44]. Imaging showed some excessive veins (CV and PAV) that were further confirmed in cadaveric dissections. By so, the revolutionary view of erection-related veins in the human penis (Fig. 5) was regarded as a pattern for PVS [45]. The latest method of PVS is based on a circumferential incision plus a median pubic longitudinal approach via a specific key instrument, with an acupuncture-assisted local anaesthesia on an ambulatory ground [46]. As the PVS is exclusively directed at the veins, damage to non-venous soft tissues is avoided. Tissues like nerve, artery and lymphatic vessels are spared. Since June 1988 nosotros accept used the PVS process every bit outpatient surgery under local amazement. Neither electrosurgery nor a suction apparatus has been required in the entire procedure, resulting in minimal or no injury to any tissue other than the veins. The incision is small and frail. Opposite to the feared potential recurrence, <25% of the 3000 patients who had the operation accept complained of a recurrence. Unfortunately, the overall outcomes are too hard to written report in one article, due to the series of methods developed over several decades. Table iii provides a comprehensive and chronological review [9,sixteen,43,45,47–49]. Although the use of electrocautery is routine in surgery, it is a major avoidable hazard in PVS [47].

Anatomy-based penile venous stripping, shown chronologically. Upper console: The conventional penile venous beefcake, of a unmarried DDV, had provided the surgical blueprint from 1986 to 1999. Middle panel: From 1999 to 2003, a CV was identified considering it was distributed in the entire CC, (Reproduce in part from [45], with permission). Lower panel: A DDV, ii CVs and two pairs of PAVs were recognised later on 2004 (Reproduced with permission from [44]).

Table 3

Methods of penile venous surgery developed chronologically since 1986.

Methods	Patients				Presentation		Follow-up (years)	Anatomy pattern, references
	North	Historic period (Year)	Period	Operative elapsing (h)	IR (%)	SR (%)
Ligation	viii	22–58	half-dozen/1986-8/1987	0.v–2.0	<l.0	0	5.0–17.0	Multiple ligation of unmarried DDV [43,48]
Stripping	23	nineteen–68	10/1986-4/1987	2.0–v.0	80.0	53	five.0–17.0	Venous stripping as much as possible [43,48]
Stripping	245	19–83	6/1987-iv/1991	2.2–3.1	67.eight	NA	–	Venous stripping under local anaesthesia since 1988 [49]
Stripping	1207	22–82	5/1992-eight/1997	2–3	69.7	57.6	–	Unmarried DDV with its branches
Stripping	615	23–83	10/1997-8/1997	2–5	85.0	64.6	–	IIEF available since 1998 Suspected penile venous beefcake
Stripping	378	nineteen–81	8/2000-11/2003	2.one–5.0	90.4	76.6	5.ane–8.two	Sure penile venous anatomy [9,xvi,45]
Stripping	235	20–91	ane/2004-1/2009	2.i–6.2	ninety.8	77.8		DDV, CV and PAV
Stripping	103	–	2/2009-1/2011	4.ii–8.0	88.7	68.7		With no well-trained assistant
Ultimate	195	–	2/2011	2.1–6.0	97.0	85.6

The second reason for unsuccessful conventional PVS is the incomplete removal of offending veins for VOD if the PVS refers to the conventional penile venous beefcake [48]. Both residual veins and electrocautery effects are readily detected in those patients who underwent PVS somewhere internationally in 2008 (Fig. half-dozen).

Inadequate penile venous surgery. (A) Remainder veins (arrow) were significant. (Reproduced with permission from [48]). (B) Not but were the residuum veins significant, but there was also poor intercavernous filling with dissimilarity medium in the pendulous portion of the CC, implying an agin effect of the electrocautery. (C) A ligation (arrow) was noted proximally while in that location was as well poorer sinusoidal filling. (D) The unabridged venous system remained untouched.

The latest refined penile venous stripping

In medical history it is rare to encounter a surgical procedure like venous surgery for restoring erectile function that has sustained such an extended period of disrepute. For over a century, the merit for conducting penile venous surgery to care for ED has never been firmly established. It was believed to be indicated just for <one% of patients with ED secondary to VOD. All the same, recent studies show that VOD might be more prevalent in patients with ED, and even in those with ED ascribed to penile arterial insufficiency [fifty]. Thus, the prevalence of VOD could be greater than expected, suggesting that a larger proportion of patients with ED might be suitable for venous surgery.

Acupuncture-assisted local anaesthesia and documenting VOD

A diagnosis of VOD was made based on dual pharmaco-cavernosography and Doppler ultrasonography. These cavernosographic studies (Fig. 7) consisted of injecting 120 mL of a thirty% contrast solution intracavernously via a 19-G scalp needle firmly affixed to the lateral distal penis. The first set of cavernosograms was taken to evidence the penile venous beefcake. The 2nd ready was made within 30 min afterwards an injection with 20 μg prostaglandin E1 via the aforementioned intracavernous route, to certificate VOD if venous channels were shown during a rigid erection afterward the infusion of dissimilarity solution (and, if necessary, boosted saline). The arterial pulsatile part and the response to prostaglandin E1 were simultaneously assessed. Doppler ultrasonography of the penis was used during a separate visit to exclude arterial insufficiency.

Dual cavernosography. (A) A cavernosogram showed the one independent DDV and a pair of CVs. (B) A late phase of the picture showed the circuitous venous system. (C) A pharmaco-cavernosogram showed VOD, because of the significant veins despite a rigid erection ensuing.

On applying a proximal dorsal nerve blockage (Fig. 8), lidocaine (0.8%, l mL) with adrenaline was delivered between the suspensory ligament forth the symphysis pubis using a 23-G dispensable needle with the bevel parallel to the longitudinal body centrality. The penile shaft was pulled away from the body axis, while the solution was injected via a ten-mL syringe into the penile hilum and into the bilateral proximal dorsal nerves. Scrotal and topical infiltrations of the injected lidocaine at the junction between the corpus spongiosum and corpora cavernosa were then made using finger-guided manipulation. The dosage of lidocaine was express to 400 mg. Acupuncture was used every bit an adjuvant to local anaesthesia, if a patient became tense during cavernosography/ultrasonography or felt uneasy with skin scrubbing from the preoperative preparations. Those patients were selected in view of their intolerance to light hurting. The acupoints of Hegu, Shou San Li, Quchi, and Waiguan were routinely stimulated. The Hegu signal is located at the highest bespeak of the prominence when the thumb and the alphabetize finger are kept adducted. The Quchi betoken is at the lateral cease of the 'transverse cubital pucker', with the elbow flexed at a right bending. The Shou San Li point is positioned 3 finger breadths caudally to the Quchi acupoint. The Waiguan betoken is ii finger breadths proximal to the middle betoken of the volar transverse carpal crease, betwixt the flexor carpi radialis muscle and the palmaris longus tendon, with the forearm prone.

An illustration of the method of local amazement. (A) The proximal dorsal nerve block; a 10-mL syringe with a 23-G (3.18 cm) disposable needle was used to inject a local anaesthetic of 0.8% 50-mL lidocaine solution. (B) A peri-penile infiltration was subsequently practical with finger-guided manipulation. (Reproduced with permission from [l]).

Penile venous stripping surgery

A circumferential incision was made kickoff, while a circumcision was completed if required (Fig. 9). The tissue layers superficial to the Colles' fascia were and then more extensively degloved. A 'milking' manipulation is helpful to enhance the visibility of the DDV, which is stripped proximally with a pull-through technique via an opening fabricated on Buck's fascia, from opening to opening on Buck's fascia upward to the penile base, using a 6–0 Nylon suture. Likewise, the paired CVs were stripped. For accessing the deep-seated venous vessels, a median longitudinal pubic incision was used to keep the venous stripping.

Photographs of venous stripping surgery. (A) A circumferential incision was made, followed by a 'milking' manipulation (squeezing the sinusoids and venous plexus) to raise the visibility of the veins. (B) The trunk of the DDV was freed over a ane-cm segment and was and so held distally and proximally with a haemostat, later on which it was cutting. (C) The proximal stump serves as a guide for performing the pull-through manoeuvre upward to the penile base. (D) The CVs were managed similarly. (East) A median longitudinal pubic wound was made to relay the venous stripping. (F) The DDV was managed in the deep position. (G) The CVs were manipulated similarly. (H) Both circumferential and pubic wounds were closed.

The paired proximal stumps of the DDV and the CVs served every bit a guide, and the DDV was then firstly thoroughly stripped and ligated using an 85° haemostat as far as the pubic bending. Similarly, the deep-seated CVs are managed. The paired PAVs that sandwich the dorsal arteries bilaterally were meticulously ligated rather than stripped. Smaller veins between the tunica albuginea and Buck'due south fascia were identified by squeezing the sinusoids of the CC. The wound was closed with v–0 chromic catgut and half-dozen–0 Nylon sutures. A compression dressing was placed such that it encircled the penile shaft. Follow-upwardly cavernosograms showed the platonic milieu of the CC for retaining intracorporeal fluid/blood (Fig. 10). These contingent techniques have been applied since 1986, along with many minor modifications since that time.

A cavernosographic indicator for assessing surgery. (A) A preoperative cavernosogram shows the venous system in an early on phase. (B) There were more veins apparent in a later phase. (C) The postoperative movie showed fewer veins, while the penile crura were readily filled. This provides a comparison with the view in panel A. (D) A late-phase film for comparison with that in panel B. Overall these films provide an objective indication for assessing the efficacy of PVS.

The time to come direction of PVS

In the past three decades there has been a rapid increment in new technologies, devices, gadgets and the awarding of state-of-the-art tools to medicine and surgery. PVS has benefited significantly from this trend. It should be a promising method in the future if, and simply if, a sound method is used and with valid instruments.

Summary

In recent decades there have been many new insights into penile tunical and venous anatomy, and in erectile physiology. These insights have underpinned penile morphological reconstructive, and penile vascular surgery. Although vascular reconstructive surgery is still regarded every bit experimental, anatomically based techniques of vascular reconstruction should exist re-appraised. Arterial reconstruction has been shown to be beneficial in young healthy men who sustain trauma. Older healthy men with ED are more likely to do good if the vascular surgery includes both arterial revascularisation and veno-arterilisation. The reproducible refined penile venous stripping procedure, that has been developed and refined over several decades, is showing hope as a viable solution for VOD in men of all ages.

Conflict of involvement

None.

Acknowledgements

Nosotros thank Ms Hsiu-Chen Lu for illustrations, Mrs Yi-Ting Wang, Luan-Hua Ho, Nicola Chen and Yu-Jen Lin for their preparations of photographs for this paper.

Footnotes

Peer review under responsibility of Arab Clan of Urology.

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