Mélanie Faure 6:21 p.m., January 28, 2022

While the coronavirus can cause breathing difficulties and cognitive impairment, it can also cause erectile dysfunction.

Research has established a link between long Covid and erectile dysfunction, as detailed in Bienfait pour vous by Pr Stéphane Droupy, Urologist Surgeon at the Nîmes University Hospital.

This is one of the biggest taboos that affects men.

Erectile dysfunction affects 10% of men.

Its causes are numerous and the solutions to treat it exist.

However, medicine has been turned upside down by a new factor: the coronavirus.

And while an erection is a reflection of good health, Covid-19, in some forms, can have an impact.

“A small Covid-19 as we see quite a lot today, that will not pose any problems”, explained in the program

Bienfait pour vous

this Friday Professor Stéphane Droupy, urologist surgeon at the CHU de Nîmes.

"But a great state of fatigue, a long Covid-19. Yes, we will go into a chronic illness and in this context, we will end up with erectile dysfunction."

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The role of Covid-longs

Researchers have detected traces of the coronavirus: "There are small studies that have shown viruses inside the penis and in the testicles. We don't know at all what will happen because it's just that it's a tropism of the virus for vascular tissue. We don't know at all what's going to happen because it's just that it's a tropism of the virus for vascular tissue. So it works too." How is this explained? Covid-19 infection of the endothelium, this cellular monolayer which lines all the vessels of the body and which is found on the surface of the corpora cavernosa - tissues which fill up with blood during the phase of erection.

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However, the coronavirus represents a threefold risk of having erectile dysfunction.

"We go from 5% to 15%", details the specialist.

Even if he admits it, "on long Covid we don't know exactly, but we can think that all the sequelae of chronic diseases will apply"