Study of Erectile Dysfunction in the Urology Department of the Gavardo Hospital

We report the results of a prospective descriptive study of erectile dysfunction in the Gavardo urology department. Over a 2-year period from 02 January 2021 to 31 December 2022 in the Gavardo urology department. We enrolled 7,230 patients, 113 of whom had erectile dysfunction, with a prevalence of 1.7%. The most common age group was 36-50 years. The mean age was 42.92 years with extremes of 20 and 73 years. Twenty-nine (29) patients (26.4%); 26 patients (23.3%) and 18 patients (16.4%) had a history of diabetes or hypertension and smoking respectively.22 patients (19.5%) presented with erectile dysfunction after adenomectomy. Farmers were the most affected compared with other occupations with a rate of 29.2% followed by civil servants with a rate of 20.4%. In our study, 83 patients (73.2%) were satisfied with IPDE5-based treatment.