Sexual Health
How to distinguish functional impotence from organic impotence? What are the specific manifestations of functional impotence
There are two kinds of impotence, functional impotence and organic impotence. There are corresponding treatment methods for impotence of different nature. It is important to distinguish what kind of impotence. How to identify these two types? The following doctors introduced the identification methods of functional impotence and organic impotence.
Impotence is divided into functional and organic, which is the main classification method of impotence, and has important guiding significance for the identification, diagnosis and treatment of impotence. As the name implies, functional impotence is an erectile dysfunction caused by mental and nervous system dysfunction. Generally speaking, the disease is sudden, often with fear, depression, anxiety, intimidation, guilt, tension and other mental stimulation factors.
The onset of organic impotence is generally slow, often manifested as gradual onset and progressive aggravation, which is mostly related to the organic abnormalities in the physiological anatomy of sexual organs and other organs, or some drug poisoning, trauma, etc. Due to insufficient arterial blood supply or endocrine dysfunction, impotence of some chronic diseases may produce qualitative impotence, but some patients may also produce qualitative impotence because of their fragile spirit and fear of disease.
For the patients with organic impotence and functional impotence, we call them mixed impotence. Patients with mixed impotence should receive comprehensive treatment through psychological, diet, medicine and other methods. Generally speaking, with the recovery of chronic diseases, impotence will also be cured.
Through the doctor's inquiry and guidance, most impotence can be distinguished from functional or organic. Night erection test, hormone determination, nervous system examination, cavernous vasoactive substance injection test, cavernous angiography, etc. For cases that are difficult to distinguish and affect the next treatment, the specific reasons can be identified, and then symptomatic treatment can be carried out.