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First EAU priapism treatment guidelines published

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The EAU has issued the first clinical practice guidelines on priapism, which have been published in short form in European Urology. Put together by the EAU panel on male sexual dysfunction, these guidelines provide an accessible, structured guide for the diagnosis and treatment of this rare clinical disorder.

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  1. Department of Urology, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium

    Maarten Albersen

  2. The James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 600 North Wolfe Street, Margurg 143, Baltimore, 12187, MD, USA

    Trinity J. Bivalacqua

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Albersen, M., Bivalacqua, T. First EAU priapism treatment guidelines published. Nat Rev Urol 11, 132–134 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrurol.2014.9

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