Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

Why ED Gets Worse with Age #shorts #sexualhealthformen #ed #anatomy

15 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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Short transcript from a YouTube video explaining anatomical changes that worsen erectile dysfunction (ED) with age: thinning and scarring of the tunica albuginea and atrophy/scarring of corpus cavernosum smooth muscle lead to incomplete blood filling and failure to compress superficial veins, impairing erection.

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When you have ed, when you age the tunicoalogenia which wrap around the muscle, it doesn't encircle the whole muscle, there are some parts that are thinner, and then the smooth muscle or corpus cavernosum also become atrophy and also has scar tissue in it. And then you have incomplete filling of the blood in the corpus cavernosum and therefore is not able to compress the veins that are on the outside of the.