A man was left with a nine-day erection after he was involved in a crash that injured his genitals.
The 35-year-old British man sustained bruising to his perineum, the area between the genitals and anus, after falling from his moped and in the days following he experienced a constant erection.
Eventually, by day nine, he took himself to hospital to get it checked out.
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According to Case Reports in Urology, medics found the man to have a Grade IV erection, the highest on a scale known as the Erection Hardness Score. I know, I can't quite believe that's a real thing either, but here we are.
Checking him over, doctors noted he had an 'erection with a rigid base and shaft with slight dorsal curvature of 10 degrees, which was non-tender'. They also spotted some bruising on the base of his penis, aside from this there were no other significant injuries.
Thankfully for the poor fella, the erection wasn't painful, but he did have to put up with 'mild discomfort when walking', as you can probably imagine.
He was given a CT scan where doctors spotted a bilateral arteriovenous fistula, an abnormal connection between an artery and vein.
Doctors were able to perform a 'minimally invasive superselective catherisation', and then used some medic-grade foam which worked over the next four to six weeks to break down one of the fistulas. Clever, eh?
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Doctors believe this is the first time this condition has been sorted using this combination of treatments.
The report reads: "To our knowledge, this is the first reported case to use multiple materials for embolisation for this.
"Timely intervention needs to be considered to avoid the potential risk of erectile dysfunction in the long term from conservative measures."
Now, a year on, the man and his penis are back to normal, with no signs of any lasting damage, so that's good news.
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The authors of the report wrote: "This patient has been sequentially reviewed in our Urology Outpatient Clinic to assess his ongoing recovery.
"Self-reported erectile function has slowly improved over the course of twelve months, without the need to use PDE-5 inhibitors.
"At one year his erections have returned to baseline."
Isn't modern medicine amazing?
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