Is Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction a Risk Factor for Erectile Dysfunction?

Urology

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1104-1107

  Wehrberger, Clemens ^a   Rauchenwald, Michael ^a   Spinka, Rainer ^b   Weber, Heinz ^b   Madersbacher, Stephan ^a   Ponholzer, Anton ^a  

^a DANUBE HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^b First Medical Department   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL INDEX OF ERECTILE FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77951667196     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2009.11.040     Document Type: Article

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