Erectile dysfunction refers to male physiological dysfunction, that is, although male genitals have sexual desire, they can not erect or maintain erectile function or it is not difficult to carry out or maintain satisfactory sexual life because of erectile dysfunction, or the English abbreviation "ED". The causes of male erectile dysfunction include:
(1) Nerve erectile dysfunction: central and peripheral neuropathy can cause nerve reflex disorder of penis erection, including intracranial disease, spinal cord injury, spinal cord disease and peripheral nerve dysfunction.
⑵ Endocrine erectile dysfunction: primary hypogonadism; Secondary hypogonadism; Hyperprolactinemia; Both hyperthyroidism and hyperthyroidism can affect the changes of sex hormones.
⑶ Drugs and other organic diseases: drugs are common in erectile dysfunction; Diseases of the reproductive organs themselves, such as hypospadias and hypospadias, can also lead to erectile dysfunction.
⑷ Mental erectile dysfunction: ① Internal mental factors. Jealousy and intimacy, hate women, sexual crimes, lack of masculinity. ② Interpersonal factors. Such as improper dependence, competition failure, long-term anger and resentment, spouse chronic diseases, life crisis, etc. ③ Empirical behavior factors: such as lack of sexual knowledge, wrong sexual experience, urgency of sexual behavior, external observation, etc.
(5) Vascular erectile dysfunction: penile erection must have three aspects of vascular changes to complete. That is, under the action of nerve reflex, the artery expands actively and the blood flow of cavernous body increases; The cavernous sinus is loose, dilated and congested; The cavernous vein is passively compressed and actively contracted, and the resistance is increased; In addition, a normal white membrane is also needed. Any of these defects can cause penile erectile dysfunction, that is, vascular erectile dysfunction.