Erectile Dysfunction

This book, under the patronage of the Italian Society of Interventional Cardiology (SICI-GISE), the Italian Society of Urology (SIU) and the Italian Society of Andrology (SIA), with the contribution of several key opinion leaders in the field of cardiovascular disease and erectile dysfunction, has been written with the aim to offer to the Readers a modern multidisciplinary team approach for evaluation and treatment of men affected by erectile dysfunction. The book follows a “bench to bedside” pathway beginning with anatomy and physiology of erection, describing the pathophysiologic basis of erectile dysfunction, then moving to the different diagnostic modalities for patient evaluation and finally describing in deep the parmacological, mechanical and surgical treatment strategies. The Editors and co-Editors really hope that this effort will be of help to urologists, andrologists and cardiologists to understand that a multidisciplinary approach can open new possibilities to increase of erectile dysfunction.