{"id":44747,"date":"2023-02-01T07:26:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T07:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=44747"},"modified":"2023-04-10T19:23:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T19:23:08","slug":"botox-for-erectile-dysfunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/44747","title":{"rendered":"Potential to use BOTOX for erectile dysfunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"HTBsubhead2articletitle\"><strong>Simon Collins, HIV i-Base<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Although it includes limited evidence, this interesting study reported positive outcomes from using BOTOX as a potential treatment for erectile dysfunction.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\">This was a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial randomised 176 participants to single injections of BOTOX (to\u00a0one of two doses) or to a saline control group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\">Improvements were reported in all scores for the BOTOX vs control groups at 3 months, which significantly favoured the higher dose group after 6 months <span lang=\"EN-US\">(p &lt;0.01).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Please see the free full text links and accompanying editorial for full details.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"HTBreferences\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">References<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li class=\"HTBreferences\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">El-Shaer W, Ghanem H, Diab T, Abo-Taleb A, Kandeel W. Intra-cavernous injection of BOTOX\u00a0(50 and 100 Units) for treatment of vasculogenic erectile dysfunction: Randomized controlled trial. Andrology. 2021 Jul;9(4):1166-1175. doi: 10.1111\/andr.13010.<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33784020\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33784020<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"HTBreferences\">Barros RB. Editorial Comment: Intra-cavernous injection of BOTOX (50 and 100 Units) for treatment of vasculogenic erectile dysfunction: Randomized controlled trial. Int Braz J Urol. 2022 Nov-Dec;48(6):990-991. doi: 10.1590\/S1677-5538.IBJU.2022.06.03. PMID: 36173411.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC9747022\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC9747022<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Collins, HIV i-Base Although it includes limited evidence, this interesting study reported positive outcomes from using BOTOX as a potential treatment for erectile dysfunction. This was a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial randomised 176 participants to single injections of BOTOX &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opportunistic-infections-coinfections-and-complications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44747"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45266,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44747\/revisions\/45266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}