Current approaches to the diagnosis of vascular erectile dysfunction

摘要: Vascular erectile dysfunction (ED) is closely related to cardiovascular events, and early diagnosis of vascular ED may be helpful predict the occurrence events improve prognosis. At present, there are many approaches diagnose ED, but each method has its advantages limitations. This study retrospectively reviewed all available literature focusing on through a systematic PubMed EMBASE search. According different application scenarios, main methods for divided into four categories. Intra-cavernous injection vasoactive drugs earliest used in basic test. For arterial color duplex Doppler ultrasound, selective penile angiography, magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography more commonly used. While venous shear wave elastography, dynamic infusion cavernosometry cavernosography accurate. Endo-peripheral tonometry (PAT) also been detect endothelial function. Although various existing examinations widely evaluation they still have some shortcomings, such as invasiveness, contingency, high false positive (negative) rate. New long-term detection needed.