Male and Female Sexual Dysfunction

Book excerpt: Male and Female Sexual Dysfunction provides an authoritative, comprehensive and clinically-orientated guide to both the background causes and full range of treatment options for patients suffering from impotence and sexually-related dysfunction. The book is a concise and practical text, enhanced with specially commissioned computer graphics and full color illustrations. It is one of the first titles to comprehensively cover the new developments in treatment of female sexual dysfunction. Throughout, there is a wealth of information on new therapies, and the very latest information on drug treatment. The book includes innovative treatment algorithms, summary boxes, and patient vignettes, and has been produced to a tight time-frame to ensure a current approach. Encompasses the very latest developments in the field, thanks to an especially brief production schedule. Discusses the neuroanatomy and physiology of male and female sexual response, and evaluates the role of factors such as hormones, diabetes, hypertension, and depression in causing sexual dysfunction. Explores new oral therapies for male and female sexual dysfunction - new therapies for ejaculation dis¬orders, including rapid ejaculation - MUSE and intracavernosal therapies - vacuum devices, gels, injections, and penile implants - gene therapy - and future directions in treatment. Presents specially commissioned computer graphics and full-color illustrations that make pathophysiology and treatment principles easy to understand.