One of the consequences that COVID-19 can cause is the alteration at the cardiac and inflammatory level in the body. Precisely, inflammation in a part of the body left several surprised and skeptical.
In recent weeks the case of a patient with COVID-19 who experienced priapism, which means a prolonged erection. It is a pathology consisting of an erection not related to sexual stimulation.
This was announced by an investigation released in mid-2020 by the revista científica The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, in which the case of a man of 69 years a native of Ohio (USA) who was hospitalized for the coronavirus, and who developed a prolonged erection in the nursing home.–
According to the study, the patient was referred to the emergency unit after staying for a week with some of the symptoms related to the virus: cough, congestion, dyspnea and generalized weakness, later showing signs of bilateral pneumonia in his lungs.
After undergoing a test, the man tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. However, the most peculiar thing came hours later, moment in which the involuntary erection occurred.
“The following afternoon, the nursing staff noticed an erection. Ice packs were placed, but the erection persisted for the next 3 hours with rigidity of the corpora cavernosa and a flaccid glans ”, describes part of the document.
The second case confirmed is that of another man, 62 years old, in Paris. He also suffered from severe respiratory symptoms and had been on a respirator when it was detected that he had an erection. As in the other case, the first measure was to apply ice packs, but four hours later the priapism remained. When drawing and testing your blood, doctors noticed small blood clots or thrombi.
The health workers used ethylephrine and also an antithrombotic, since they suspected that the clots could have plugged the veins of the penis that prevented the erection from descending. In this case, the treatment was effective and the general condition of the patient improved.
However, there is still not enough scientific evidence to link Covid-19 with cases of ischemic priapism.
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