Erectile Dysfunction
The Scottsdale Stem Cell Treatment Center offers treatment for erectile dysfunction to residents of Scottsdale, Phoenix, and the surrounding Arizona communities.
Erectile dysfunction is defined as the inability to achieve or sustain an erection suitable for sexual intercourse. ED affects up to one third of men of men throughout their lives and has a substantial negative impact on intimate relationships, quality of life and self-esteem. Causes are multifactorial but can be related to loss of testosterone, surgical damage to the penile nerves, medications, or other medical illnesses. The most common cause of ED is “vasculopathy”, which is damage to the delicate blood vessels in the penis. This vasculopathy is often associated with age but strongly related to atherosclerosis, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol and cerebrovascular and peripheral vascular disease. Men with ED are also at significantly increased risk of coronary artery disease. Therefore, when men have ED, screening for cardiovascular risk factors should be considered because symptoms of ED present as much as three years earlier than other symptoms of coronary artery disease such as chest pain. The current treatment of ED centers on the use of Phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors such as Viagra, Cialis, or Levitra. Intraurethral pellets and intracavernosal (penile injectable agents) are also available if oral medications fail. Various mechanical external vacuum pump devices are helpful also in patients who are comfortable with assisted devices. Penile revascularization surgery has mostly fallen out of favor due to poor outcomes in most patients. At this time, the only treatment available to patients who have not succeeded with any of the above are surgically implanted hydraulic penile prostheses. These surgeries are somewhat invasive but mostly effective. Adipose derived stem cells have shown extraordinary promise in revascularizing cardiac tissue, ischemic limbs and other organs suffering damage from poor blood flow by regenerating small blood vessels, as well as smooth muscle and nerves. We have evidence that adipose derived stem cells stimulate endothelial (small blood vessel lining) growth and improve penile blood flow in animal models. Early attempts have been made in human patients to re-vascularize their penile arteries using stem cells from umbilical cord blood and results showed great promise as discussed at a 2008 meeting of the American Urological Association in Orlando Florida. At Scottsdale Stem Cell Treatment Center, we have a protocol to deploy extremely high numbers of adipose derived stem cells into the penile corpora cavernosa to naturally revascularize the penis allowing recovery of normal erections.
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We care about our erectile dysfunction patients at Scottsdale Stem Cell Treatment Center and take pride in the time we provide to our patients to deploy the best protocols to help our patients achieve their goals.
The Scottsdale Stem Cell Treatment Center provides cutting-edge care for patients in Scottsdale, Phoenix and the surrounding Arizona communities with a wide variety of degenerative disorders using adult stem cell regenerative therapy.
The Scottsdale Stem Cell Treatment Center is focused on providing you with the most innovative techniques and advanced procedures for harvesting and deploying adult stem cells from your own fat.