La Malattia di La Peyronie negli anziani: aspetti clinici e psicologici in uno studio su 30 pazienti

Purpose The La Peyronie’s (PD) and the pseudo PD’s diseases show recurvatio penis and pain. Objective Have been studied the appearance of the PD and of the pseudo PD in old subjects and its psychological damage. Patients and Methods. 46 patients, aged 65-72 years (DS 2.12) with MP (23 subjects) and pseudo MP (23 subjects) were enrolled in this study. The diagnosis of the PD and of the pseudo PD was performed by research of clinical and echographic signs. The state of uncomfortable was researched by the Berger questions, the Rosenzweig test and by the medical-patient interviews. Results were evaluated by epidemiological studies (cohort, control-case) and Spearman’s correlations Results The patients with PD suffered of recurvatio penis and pain to erection and showed the uncomfortable in 19 cases, while the patients with pseudo PD suffered of recurvatio penis (it did not connect to erection) and of variable penile pain and showed the uncomfortable in 6 cases. The uncomfortable showed in PD patients 84.29-96.76% of RA (risk in exposed subjects) and 70.31-79.92% of RAP (risk in population) and in pseudo PD patients 50-56.33% of RA and 26.62-33.79% of RAP%. vascular penile defects can produce the pseudo PD. The reason of the uncomfortable was Discussion and Conclusions The infectious diseases could induce the PD, while the produced by the lose of the self-esteem (it was identified with the erectile function) and it showed an incidence of the 82.60% in the PD patients and of the 26.08% in the pseudo PD patients.