In the last hours, a case of a 69-year-old guy admitted for COVID-19 that manifested this curious reaction has been disseminated. We analyze what is behind this case, and reject false info about it, with the aid of a specialist.
More than a year after COVID-19 was explained, this illness, triggered by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, has actually created numerous countless published studies on its symptoms, complications and negative effects. Today we know that COVID-19 is a lot more than a respiratory disease: it is rather a multisystemic disease, which can impact a number of organs in addition to the lungs (brain, liver, kidneys, intestinal tracts, heart and capillary … ).
As soon as the context is located, we can prepare ourselves to better comprehend a ‘news’ that distributes in the last hours in some digital media: “The irreversible erection, ‘brand-new’ adverse effects of COVID-19″. What holds true in this headline? Can COVID-19 trigger this really particular symptom and, apparently, so little associated to the illness? Is this striking ‘adverse effects’ new? Next, we will evaluate what is behind this news already deny all the incorrect details that has been distributed in this regard (we imagine, due to the morbidity of the organ in concern).
All of it comes from a research study published by The American Journal of Emergency Medicine that describes the case of a 69-year-old male from Ohio who was hospitalized for COVID-19, and who developed an extended erection throughout his admission. Nevertheless, this study is not new, but was published in June 2020 (for some reason, the case has been saved and released by the press in recent hours).
As detailed in the research study, the male was confessed to the emergency clinic after a week of coughing, congestion, dyspnea, anorexia and generalized weakness, then revealing signs of bilateral pneumonia in his lungs. When there, he tested favorable for SARS-CoV-2. It sought numerous hours of being hospitalized that the erection occurred, however this was not the factor that led him to be confessed: “In the supination of the following afternoon, the nursing staff saw an erection. Ice bag were put, but the erection persisted for the next 3 hours with rigidity of the corpora cavernosa and a drooping glans, “the document describes.
What we frequently know as ‘extended erection’ is referred to in medical terms as priapism (from the Greek divine being Priapus, a lower god of fertility). This pathology consists of an erection that is not related to sexual stimulation which, in basic, only involves the corpora cavernosa. According to Manuel Carbonero, associate chief urologist in the Urology department of the Valdemoro Hospital in Madrid, priapism responds to a veno-occlusive mechanism that is modified. “During erection, sensual stimulation triggers the endothelium, the inner layer of blood vessels in the penis, allow the blood to go into and form a type of ‘swamp’, a flood, which causes the erection “. When it comes to an erection that does not vanish, where sexuality is not included, there is an alteration in this regular system of the body, which can be produced by various causes (a spine injury, for instance, however likewise by effect compounds such as medications and other drugs).
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