Post Date December, 03 2023
There are generally two types of impotence, one is functional impotence and the other is organic impotence. The concept of these two types of impotence can be roughly understood through their literal meanings. However, how can these two types of impotence be distinguished?
As the name suggests, functional impotence is an erectile dysfunction caused by dysfunction of the mental and nervous systems. The onset is usually sudden, often accompanied by psychological stimuli such as fear, depression, anxiety, shock, guilt, and tension. Organic impotence generally starts relatively slowly, often manifested as gradual onset and progressive exacerbation, often related to organic abnormalities in the physiological anatomy of sexual organs and other organs, or certain drug poisoning, trauma, etc.
Some chronic diseases can cause erectile dysfunction due to insufficient arterial blood supply or endocrine dysfunction. However, due to the fragile mental state of some patients and fear of the disease, functional erectile dysfunction can also occur on the basis of organic erectile dysfunction. For patients with both organic and functional erectile dysfunction, we call it mixed erectile dysfunction. Patients with mixed erectile dysfunction should receive comprehensive treatment through psychological, dietary, medication, and other methods. Generally, with the recovery of chronic diseases, impotence is also cured.
Through doctor consultation and guidance for treatment, most erectile dysfunction can be distinguished between functional and organic. For individual cases that are difficult to distinguish but have an impact on the next stage of treatment, nighttime penile erection tests, penile cavernous vasoactive substance injection tests, penile cavernous angiography, etc. can be performed to make a diagnosis.
