Sexual dysfunction in patients with multiple sclerosis: A multidisciplinary approach to evaluation and management

Nature Clinical Practice Urology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 96-107

  Fletcher, Sophie G ^a   Castro Borrero, Wanda ^a   Remington, Gina ^a   Treadaway, Katherine ^a   Lemack, Gary E ^a   Frohman, Elliot M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; AMFEBUTAMONE; AMPHETAMINE; BACLOFEN; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BOTULINUM TOXIN; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONIDINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DANTROLENE; DEXAMPHETAMINE; DONEPEZIL; DULOXETINE; ETIRACETAM; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; METHYLPHENIDATE; MODAFINIL; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOL; PHENYTOIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TIZANIDINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID; VENLAFAXINE;

ANORGASMIA; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISABILITY; EJACULATION DISORDER; EMOTION; ENTEROPATHY; FATIGUE; HOLISTIC CARE; HUMAN; LIBIDO; LIBIDO DISORDER; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; ORGASM; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROGRADE EJACULATION; REVIEW; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPASTICITY; TREMOR; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINARY URGENCY; URINE INCONTINENCE; URINE RETENTION; WEAKNESS;

DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 60149091160     PISSN: 17434270     EISSN: 17434289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpuro1298     Document Type: Review

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