ED (Erectile Dysfunction) and CHF (Congestive Heart Failures) are two very commonly prevailing disorders that usually occur in tandem. Many risk factors like hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, and smoking are common to both of them. In addition, the unique physiological consequences of CHF often lead to distinctive psychological and organic factors responsible for ED.
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Erectile or sexual dysfunction observed in the heart patients get worsened further due to side effects of the general CHF treatment with digoxin, thiazide diuretics, and beta-receptor blockers. Consequently, these patients become highly likely to make a misguided, desperate effort to restore their sexual activity, thereby worsening their cardiac capacity even further. Thus, sexual dysfunction and congestive heart failures are significantly correlated with each other, with one being the cause of the other.
Latest researches have ascertained that loss of penile erection is undeniably a vital portent of a heart disease. Symptoms, like sexual dissatisfaction, decreased coitus frequency, significantly reduced libido, and deteriorated sexual performance, are commonly observed in majority of CHF patients. A recent research in the US indicated that nearly 75 percent patients with congestive heart failures of various origins experienced erectile disorder. This strongly suggested that CHF, and not atherosclerosis, was the primary reason underlying ED development in a patient.
The common connection between the two conditions is believed to be endothelial dysfunction. Atherosclerosis, which is the main reason behind a congestive heart failure, lead to many psychogenic and organic conditions that disrupt the usual NO-cGMP pathway responsible for normal erectile functioning of the penis. ED is also caused in some hart patients due to an imbalance between the relaxation and vascular contractile mediators. Owing to this vital correlation between erectile disorders and congestive heart failures, ED has commonly been called the Penile Angina.
Male impotence, medically termed as erectile dysfunction (ED), has many different kinds in which it exhibits itself. The five main types include arteriogenic, venogenic, hormonal, psychogenic, and neurogenic. More..
Congestive Heart Failure And Erectile Dysfunction
