In a recent study published in the International Journal of Impotence Research , a group of researchers assessed the relationship between Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) and ischemic priapism in patients treated at three university hospitals in Egypt between April 2020 and June 2022. Ischemic priapism is a rare condition where blood gets trapped in the erection chambers of the penis. Study: The relationship between Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) and ischemic priapism: a case-control study .
Image Credit: Design_Cells / Shutterstock On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. The disease has profoundly impacted medical, social, economic, and environmental aspects of life, leading to widespread lockdowns. By March 24, 2024, the WHO reported 775,132,086 confirmed cases and 7,042,222 deaths.
COVID-19 symptoms vary widely, with fever, cough, and anosmia being common. Severe cases often exhibit hypercoagulability, increasing the risk of thromboembolic complications, including ischemic priapism, a urological emergency caused by sinusoidal thrombosis. Further research is needed to determine whether the association between COVID-19 and ischemic priapism is causal or merely coincidental.
The present study retrospectively reviewed patients with priapism at three university hospitals from April 2020 to June 2022. During the COVID-19 pandemic, all emergency department patients were assessed for COVID-19 using chest computed tomography (CT), co.
