Chapter 18 – Male Sexual Dysfunction, Prostate Disease and Testicular Lumps
Topic
CONTENTS
- Male sexual dysfunction
- Erectile function
- Erectile dysfunction
- Ejaculatory dysfunction
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Testosterone or androgen deficiency
- The role of testosterone
- Androgen deficiency
- Specific symptoms with low testosterone
- Causes of low testosterone or hypogonadism
- Examination
- Investigations
- The connection between testosterone, sexual function and depression
- The connection between testosterone and obesity
- The controversy of late onset hypogonadism (LOH) also known as partial androgen deficiency of the ageing male (PADAM)
- Diagnosis of hypogonadism allowing authority prescription
- Testosterone replacement therapy treatments
- Prostate disease
- Benign Prostate Hyperplasia
- Prostate cancer
- Testicular lumps
- Resources
- References
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Testosterone or androgen deficiency
Testosterone is the most important androgen (male sex hormone) in men and is secreted in a circadian rhythm. It is important for libido, as well as conferring many other health benefits. In men, 95 per cent of testosterone is produced in the testes and 5 per cent from the adrenal glands. Women have a much lower level of testosterone, with 50 per cent produced in the ovaries and 50 per cent in the adrenal glands. (1)
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